Predictive factors for undertriage among severe blunt trauma patients: what enables them to slip through an established trauma triage protocol?

J Trauma. 2010 May;68(5):1044-51. doi: 10.1097/ta.0b013e3181aca144.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Age Factors
  • Aged
  • Case-Control Studies
  • Clinical Protocols*
  • Diagnostic Errors / statistics & numerical data*
  • Emergency Medical Services / organization & administration*
  • Emergency Medical Technicians / education
  • Emergency Medical Technicians / organization & administration
  • Emergency Service, Hospital
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Japan / epidemiology
  • Logistic Models
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Multiple Trauma / diagnosis
  • Multiple Trauma / epidemiology
  • Multivariate Analysis
  • Risk Assessment
  • Risk Factors
  • Time Factors
  • Transportation of Patients / organization & administration
  • Trauma Severity Indices
  • Triage / organization & administration*
  • Wounds, Nonpenetrating / diagnosis*
  • Wounds, Nonpenetrating / epidemiology