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Trauma resource pit stop: increasing efficiency in the evaluation of lower severity trauma patients

BACKGROUND: Overtriage of trauma patients is unavoidable and requires effective use of hospital resources. A ‘pit stop’ (PS) was added to our lowest tier trauma resource (TR) triage protocol where the patient stops in the trauma bay for immediate evaluation by the emergency department (ED) physician...

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Autores principales: Dandan, Imad S, Tominaga, Gail T, Zhao, Frank Z, Schaffer, Kathryn B, Nasrallah, Fady S, Gawlik, Melanie, Bayat, Dunya, Dandan, Tala H, Biffl, Walter L
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8094379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34013050
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tsaco-2020-000670