Interhospital Transfer Occurs More Slowly for Elderly Acute Trauma Patients

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 415-420

  Utter, Garth H ^a   Victorino, Gregory P ^b   Wisner, David H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

elderly; injury; interhospital transfer; time; trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CALIFORNIA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PATIENT TRANSFER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 55649088912     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2007.04.021     Document Type: Article

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