Impact of a statewide trauma system on rural emergency department patient assessment documentation

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 268-276

  Hedges, Jerris R ^a,b   Mann, N Clay ^a,b   Mullins, Richard J ^c   Rowland, Donna ^c   Worrall, William ^c   Zechnich, Andrew D ^a,b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Emergency Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c Department of Surgery

Author keywords

documentation; medical records; rural trauma; trauma system

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY SCALE; LIMB INJURY; LIVER INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NEWBORN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SPLEEN INJURY; THORAX INJURY; TRAUMATOLOGY;

EID: 0030890719     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1997.tb03547.x     Document Type: Article

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