Major trauma deaths at Perth secondary hospitals

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 754-760

  Fatovich, Daniel M ^a   Burrell, Maxine ^b   Jacobs, Ian G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c ST JOHN AMBULANCE WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Injury severity score; Mortality; Non trauma centre; Prevention; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUTOPSY; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; FALLING; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SURVIVAL; THORAX INJURY; TIME OF DEATH; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT TRANSFER; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860398150     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2011.01476.x     Document Type: Article

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