Severity-adjusted mortality in trauma patients transported by police

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Band, Roger A ^a   Salhi, Rama A ^a   Holena, Daniel N ^a   Powell, Elizabeth ^a   Branas, Charles C ^a   Carr, Brendan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; AMBULANCE TRANSPORTATION; ARTICLE; CASE MIX; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NECK INJURY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PENETRATING TRAUMA; POLICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; STAB WOUND; SURVIVAL; THORAX INJURY; TRAUMA AND INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; PHILADELPHIA; POLICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; WOUNDS, PENETRATING; WOUNDS, STAB;

EID: 84898833783     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2013.11.008     Document Type: Article

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