Major trauma patients transferred from rural and remote Western Australia by the royal flying doctor service

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1816-1820

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

^a ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d Royal Flying Doctor Service Western Operations   (Australia)

Author keywords

Major trauma; Remoteness; Retrieval; Royal Flying Doctor Service; Rural

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; FEMALE; FLIGHT; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROYAL FLYING DOCTOR SERVICE; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR AMBULANCES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84355166596     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318238bd4c     Document Type: Article

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