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01-12-2015 | Meeting abstract
Pre-hospital data as risk predictors of seriousness among traumatically injured patients
Authors:
Alexander Franzén, Kim L Schultz, Jens O Laursen, Christian B Mogensen
Published in:
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
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Special Issue 1/2015
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Excerpt
Currently many hospitals activate a trauma team with a predefined large team of health care professionals as a response to a trauma call. For hospitals with limited resources, this is a demanding process, which weakens the overall hospital performance by allocating considerable resources to the trauma room. Most trauma calls are based on trauma schemes scores from a combination of physiologic- anatomic injury- and injury mechanism criteria. In the search for indicators which might be used for a more differentiated hospital response, the aim of this study was to investigate the relative importance of pre-hospital variables in identifying "high risk" patients. …