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Published in: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 1/2015

Open Access 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 | 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. …
Metadata
Title
Pre-hospital data as risk predictors of seriousness among traumatically injured patients
Authors
Alexander Franzén
Kim L Schultz
Jens O Laursen
Christian B Mogensen
Publication date
01-12-2015
Publisher
BioMed Central
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-23-S1-A3

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