Advancing age and trauma: Triage destination compliance and mortality in Victoria, Australia

Injury

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1312-1319

  Cox, Shelley ^a,b   Morrison, Chris ^a,b   Cameron, Peter ^b   Smith, Karen ^a,b  

^a Blackburn North   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Advancing age; Definitive care; Destination compliance; Major trauma service; Mortality; Pre hospital; Trauma; Triage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ADOLESCENT; AGE; AMBULANCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; INJURY SCALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULANCES; AUSTRALIA; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT DISCHARGE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRIAGE; VICTORIA; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84905463620     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2014.02.028     Document Type: Article

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