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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2016 Trauma is considered a “modern civilized sickness”, and its occurrence substantially affects all of society, as well as individuals. The implementation of trauma emergency systems in cities with young, prosperous, and highly mobile populations is ...
Yishu Zhu +5 more
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Implementation of a quality improvement project on smoking cessation reduces smoking in a high risk trauma patient population. [PDF]
, 2016 BackgroundCigarette smoking causes about one of every five deaths in the U.S. each year. In 2013 the prevalence of smoking in our institution's trauma population was 26.7 %, well above the national adult average of 18.1 % according to the CDC website. As
Carrens, Karen +5 more
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System and method for determining triage categories [PDF]
, 2019 Embodiments disclosed herein provide a system, method, and computer program product for providing a triage clas- sification system. The triage classification system uses a computer model that is developed using historical patient data.
Holcomb, John B. +3 more
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Effect of the Uniform Accident and Sickness Policy Provision Law on Alcohol Screening and Intervention in Trauma Centers [PDF]
, 2006 Outlines how a law allowing insurers to deny payment for injury claims if alcohol or drug use was involved prevents alcohol screening and interventions to reduce alcohol use, repeat injuries, and healthcare costs.
Deanna Lewis
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United States level I trauma centers are not created equal – a concern for patient safety?
Patient Safety in Surgery, 2008 Background The American College of Surgeons delineates 108 requirements for level I trauma centers. Some of these requirements include: minimum of 1,200 trauma admissions per year; an average of 35 major trauma patients per surgeon; residency training ...
Barrette-Grischow Mary-Kate +2 more
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Predicting blunt cerebrovascular injury in pediatric trauma: Validation of the Utah Score [PDF]
, 2017 Risk factors for blunt cerebrovascular injury (BCVI) may differ between children and adults, suggesting that children at low risk for BCVI after trauma receive unnecessary computed tomography angiography (CTA) and high-dose radiation.
Akbari, Hassan +13 more
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Patient Safety in Surgery, 2020 Introduction There is a lack of data on the use and effectiveness of pre-hospital pelvic circumferential compression devices (PCCD) as a temporary intervention for pelvic fracture management; they are thought to decrease pelvic volume and hemorrhage but ...
Stephanie Jarvis +8 more
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Location of trauma care resources with inter-facility patient transfers
Operations Research Perspectives, 2021 Traumatic injury is the third leading cause of death in the United States and is the leading cause of death among people aged 1–44. Regional trauma care systems can significantly reduce this mortality rate if resources are located and used appropriately.
Eric DuBois +2 more
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Surgery Open Science, 2022 Introduction: Traumatic brain injury is the leading cause of trauma-related death in children. We hypothesized that children with isolated traumatic brain injury would experience differential outcomes when treated at pediatric versus adult or combined ...
Ruth A. Lewit, MD +4 more
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WSES classification and guidelines for liver trauma [PDF]
, 2016 The severity of liver injuries has been universally classified according to the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) grading scale. In determining the optimal treatment strategy, however, the haemodynamic status and associated injuries ...
Abu-Zidan, Fikri M. +18 more
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