Pre-hospital trauma care: A proposal for more efficient evaluation

Injury

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 725-733

  Vles, Wouter J ^a,c   Steyerberg, Ewout W ^b   Meeuwis, J Dik ^a   Leenen, Loek P H ^a,d  

^a TweeSteden Hospital   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c IKAZIA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ambulance services; Delta Ps; Outcome parameters; Pre hospital; Probability of survival; Registration; Trauma care; TRISS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAMPLE SIZE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 3042787921     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2003.09.006     Document Type: Article

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