Emergency trauma care in rural and remote settings: Challenges and patient outcomes

JM Morgan, P Calleja - International emergency nursing, 2020 - Elsevier
Introduction Trauma is a global public health concern, with higher mortality rates
acknowledged in rural and remote populations. Research to understand this phenomenon …

Impact of prehospital transfer strategies in major trauma and head injury: systematic review, meta-analysis, and recommendations for study design

A Pickering, K Cooper, S Harnan, A Sutton… - Journal of Trauma …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND It is unclear whether trauma patients should be transferred initially to a
trauma center or local hospital. METHODS A systematic review and meta-analysis assessed …

Building capacity in healthcare by re-examining clinical services in paramedicine

W Tavares, I Drennan, K Van Diepen… - Prehospital …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives: Emergency departments (ED) continue to be overburdened, leading to crowding
and elevated risk of negative clinical outcomes. Extending clinical services to paramedics …

The importance of rural hospitals: transfers and 30-day readmissions among rural residents and patients presenting at rural hospitals

KJ Bennett, JC Probst, JC Bullard… - Population health …, 2019 - liebertpub.com
The purpose was to examine factors associated with transfers and readmissions among
Medicare patients initially presenting at rural facilities. Data from the 2013 Medicare Claims …

Do direct admissions to trauma centers have a survival benefit compared to inter-hospital transfers in severe trauma?

A Tiruneh, M Bodas, I Radomislensky… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose To compare mortality among severe and critically injured patients who were directly
admitted (DA) to level I trauma center (TCI) or level II trauma center (TCII) with those who …

Characteristics and outcomes of patients injured in road traffic crashes and transported by emergency medical services

CY Huang, CS Rau, JF Chuang, PJ Kuo… - International journal of …, 2016 - mdpi.com
To investigate the injury characteristics and mortality of patients transported by emergency
medical services (EMS) and hospitalized for trauma following a road traffic crash, data …

Alcohol-related hospitalisations of trauma patients in Southern Taiwan: a cross-sectional study based on a trauma registry system

CS Rau, HT Liu, SY Hsu, TY Cho, CH Hsieh - BMJ open, 2014 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives To provide an overview of the demographic characteristics of patients with
positive blood alcohol concentration (BAC) and to investigate the performance of brain CT …

Statement of severe trauma management in France; teachings of the FIRST study

C Tissier, C Bonithon-Kopp, M Freysz… - Annales françaises d' …, 2013 - Elsevier
Introduction The blunt trauma victim management is still a matter of debate and comparing
studies involving different emergency medical services and health care organization …

Adaptation and promotion of emergency medical service transportation for climate change

CL Pan, CW Chiu, JC Wen - Medicine, 2014 - journals.lww.com
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Comparing outcomes between major trauma patients transferred from a different hospital and patients transported directly to trauma centers: a retrospective analysis …

CH Yeh, SE Chou, WT Su, CH Tsai… - Emergency Medicine …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study aimed to explore differences in outcomes between these major trauma patients
who were transferred and those directly transported to trauma centers. The medical …