Is total out-of-hospital time a significant predictor of trauma patient mortality?

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 949-954

  Lerner, E Brooke ^a,b,c,d   Billittier IV, Anthony J ^a,c   Dorn, Joan M ^b   Wu, Yow Wu B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c Center for Transportation Injury Research   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency medicine services; Injury; Time; Trauma; Triage; Wounds

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HELICOPTER; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVISED TRAUMA SCORE; SCORING SYSTEM; TOTAL OUT OF HOSPITAL TIME;

EID: 0041334009     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/S1069-6563(03)00313-0     Document Type: Article

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