A comparison of metropolitan vs rural major trauma in Western Australia

Resuscitation

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 886-890

  Fatovich, Daniel M ^a   Phillips, Michael ^a   Langford, Stephen A ^b   Jacobs, Ian G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Royal Flying Doctor Service   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Major trauma; Mortality; Retrieval; Royal Flying Doctor Service; Rural; Trauma systems

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE REGISTRY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; ROYAL FLYING DOCTOR SERVICE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SURVIVAL; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; REGISTRIES; RURAL POPULATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TRAUMA CENTERS; URBAN POPULATION; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 79957819988     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2011.02.040     Document Type: Article

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