Comparison of Mortality Due to Severe Multiple Trauma in Two Comprehensive Models of Emergency Care: Atlantic Pyrenees (France) and Navarra (Spain)

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 189-200

  Gómez de Segura Nieva, José Luis ^a   Boncompte, Mercedes Marraco ^b   Sucunza, Alfredo Echarri ^a   Louis, Clint Luise Jean ^d   Seguí Gómez, María ^c   Otano, Tomás Belzunegui ^d  

^a Pre hospital Emergency Medical Services UVI Móvil Pamplona   (Spain)

^b Servicio Navarro de Salud Osasunbidea Gerencia de Atención Primaria Subdirección de Urgencias de Navarra y Dirección Técnica de la Atención a la Urgencia Vital Navarra España   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^d Universidad Pública de Navarra   (Spain)

Author keywords

comprehensive emergency care systems; mortality; severe multiple trauma; trauma systems

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; FRANCE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPAIN;

EID: 67651146837     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2007.10.089     Document Type: Article

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