Initial emergency department trauma scores from the OPALS study: The case for the motor score in blunt trauma

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 834-842

  Al Salamah, Majid A ^a   McDowell, Ian ^a   Stiell, Ian G ^a,b   Wells, George A ^a   Perry, Jeff ^a   Al Sultan, Mohammed ^a   Nesbitt, Lisa ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b Clinical Epidemiology Unit   (Canada)

Author keywords

blunt trauma; Glasgow Coma Scale; multiple trauma; prediction; Revised Trauma Score; survival; triage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISABILITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ADMISSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRIAGE; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 3242685245     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2004.03.008     Document Type: Article

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