Does the rural trauma team development course shorten the interval from trauma patient arrival to decision to transfer?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 315-319

  Kappel, David A ^a   Rossi, Daniel C ^a   Polack, Edward P ^a   Avtgis, Theodore A ^b   Martin, Matthew M ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Authority gradient; Hand off communication; RTTDC; Rural Trauma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL HEALTH CARE;

COMMUNICATION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT TRANSFER; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; TIME FACTORS; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMATOLOGY; WEST VIRGINIA; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 79951590790     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318209589e     Document Type: Article

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