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Success Of An Expedited Emergency Department Triage Evaluation System For Geriatric Trauma Patients Not Meeting Trauma Activation Criteria

BACKGROUND: Geriatric patients are at increased risk of injury following low-energy mechanisms and are less tolerant of injury. Current criteria for trauma team activation (TTA) often miss these injuries. We evaluated a novel triage process for an expedited Emergency Medicine Physician evaluation pr...

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Autores principales: Fernandez, Forrest B, Ong, Adrian, Martin, Anthony P, Schwab, C William, Wasser, Tom, Butts, Christopher A, McNicholas, Amanda R, Muller, Alison L, Barbera, Charles F, Trupp, Rachael, Sigal, Adam P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6825467/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31754315
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/OAEM.S212617