Effect of a pediatric trauma response team on emergency department treatment time and mortality of pediatric trauma victims

Pediatrics

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 20-24

  Vernon, Donald D ^a,d   Furnival, Ronald A ^a   Hansen, Kristine W ^c   Diller, Edma M ^b   Bolte, Robert G ^a   Johnson, Dale G ^a   Dean, J Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c PRIMARY CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROSURGERY; NURSE; OPERATING ROOM; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PHARMACIST; PHLEBOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; SURVIVAL; TEAMWORK; TRAUMATOLOGY; VICTIM;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; TIME FACTORS; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TRAUMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UTAH; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0033050702     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.103.1.20     Document Type: Article

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