Do outcome measures for trauma triage agree?

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 467-469

  Leach, Sydney R ^a   Swor, Robert A ^a   Jackson, Raymond E ^a   Fringer, Ryan C ^a   Bonfiglio, Antonio X ^b  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b St John Macomb Oakland Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Outcome measures; Procedural measures; Trauma triage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 54049130027     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903120802290836     Document Type: Article

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