Variability of Trauma Transfer Practices among Non-tertiary Care Hospital Emergency Departments

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 746-754

  Newgard, Craig D ^a   McConnell, K John ^a   Hedges, Jerris R ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

injury; interhospital transfer; rural; trauma; variability

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INSURANCE, HEALTH; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; OREGON; PATIENT TRANSFER; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33745242317     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.02.014     Document Type: Article

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