Trauma team activation and the impact on mortality

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 326-330

  Cherry, Robert A ^a   King, Tonya S ^a   Carney, Daniel E ^a   Bryant, Patrick ^a   Cooney, Robert N ^a  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; BREATHING RATE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE REGISTRY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVALUATION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HAZARD RATIO; HEART RATE; HOSPITALIZATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY SEVERITY; INTUBATION; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; LENGTH OF STAY; MODEL; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL TIME; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRAUMA TEAM ACTIVATION; TRAUMATOLOGY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAGE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 34547882460     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31811eaad1     Document Type: Article

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