Scoop and run to the trauma center or stay and play at the local hospital: Hospital transfer's effect on mortality

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 595-599

  Nirula, Ram ^a   Maier, Ronald ^b   Moore, Ernest ^c   Sperry, Jason ^d   Gentilello, Larry ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c DENVER HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay; Mortality; Trauma center; Triage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CRYSTALLOID; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESUSCITATION; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; AGE; BLUNT TRAUMA; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT TRANSFER; RESUSCITATION; TIME FACTORS; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 77957554425     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181ee6e32     Document Type: Article

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