Incremental benefit of individual American College of Surgeons trauma triage criteria

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 992-1000

  Henry, Mark C ^a   Hollander, Judd E ^a   Alicandro, Jeanne M ^a   Cassara, Guy ^a   O'Malley, Susan ^a   Thode Jr , Henry C ^a,b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Preventive Medicine ^*

Author keywords

emergency medical services; motor vehicle crashes; outcome studies; resource use; trauma system; trauma triage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL CARE; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0029852707     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1996.tb03340.x     Document Type: Article

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