Risk adjustment measures and outcome measures for prehospital trauma research: Recommendations from the emergency medical services outcomes project (EMSOP)

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 988-1000

  Beskind, Daniel L ^a   Keim, Samuel M ^a   Spaite, Daniel W ^a   Garrison, Herbert G ^b   Brooke Lerner, E ^c   Howse, David ^a   Maio, Ronald F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; DEATH; DISABILITY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ETHNICITY; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART RATE; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; INJURY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; PANEL STUDY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VITAL SIGN;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ADJUSTMENT; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 80052717950     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01148.x     Document Type: Review

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