Is trauma transfer influenced by factors other than medical need? An examination of insurance status and transfer in patients with mild head injury

Neurosurgery

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 659-667

  Babu, Maya A ^a   Nahed, Brian V ^b   Demoya, Marc A ^b   Curry, William T ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Head trauma; Hospital transfer; Insurance status

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BRAIN CONTUSION; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CHILD; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SKULL FRACTURE; SOCIAL STATUS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSURANCE COVERAGE; LEGISLATION, MEDICAL; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT TRANSFER; REGISTRIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TEXAS; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051791382     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31821bc667     Document Type: Article

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