First echelon hospital care before trauma center transfer in a rural trauma system: Does it affect outcome?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1362-1366

  Helling, Thomas S ^a   Davit, Flavia ^a   Edwards, Kim ^a  

^a Department of Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Rural trauma care; Trauma center; Trauma system; Trauma transfer

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY DISEASE; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RURAL AREA; SEPSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRACHEOSTOMY;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT TRANSFER; PENNSYLVANIA; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 78650831428     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181d75250     Document Type: Article

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