A comparison of major trauma patients transported to trauma centres vs. non-trauma centres in metropolitan Perth

Resuscitation

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 560-563

  Fatovich, Daniel M ^a   Phillips, Michael ^a   Jacobs, Ian G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Major trauma; Mortality; Non trauma centre; Time; Trauma centre; Trauma system

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FACE INJURY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; LIMB INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PELVIS INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECONDARY HEALTH CARE; SPINE INJURY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THORAX INJURY; TIME;

ADULT; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; MALE; MORBIDITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 79955076967     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2011.01.016     Document Type: Article

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