The availability and use of out-of-hospital physiologic information to identify high-risk injured children in a multisite, population-based cohort

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 420-431

  Newgard, Craig D ^a   Rudser, Kyle ^b   Atkins, Dianne L ^c   Berg, Robert ^d   Osmond, Martin H ^e   Bulger, Eileen M ^f   Davis, Daniel P ⁱ   Schreiber, Martin A ^a   Warden, Craig ^a   Rea, Thomas D ^g   Emerson, Scott ^h  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g University of Washington ^*  (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Emergency medical services; Out of hospital; Physiologic; Trauma; Triage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BREATHING RATE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTUBATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PULSE OXIMETRY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADOLESCENT; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRIAGE; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 70149102511     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903120903144882     Document Type: Article

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