Injury-adjusted Mortality of Patients Transported by Police Following Penetrating Trauma

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 32-37

  Band, Roger A ^a   Pryor, John P ^a   Gaieski, David F ^a   Dickinson, Edward T ^a   Cummings, Daniel ^a   Carr, Brendan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES EDUCATION; FEMALE; FIRE FIGHTER; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PENETRATING TRAUMA; POLICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAB WOUND; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; PHILADELPHIA; POLICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; WOUNDS, STAB; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78651371848     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00948.x     Document Type: Article

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