Monday, 22 September 2014

Study Finds 34 Percent of Severely Injured Patients Undertriaged in US

Patients with severe injuries should be treated at level I or level II trauma centers, suggests the American College of Surgeons' Committee on Trauma. Those centers have the resources to provide the best care for those patients. But 1 out of 3 major trauma patients in 2010 actually received their treatment at lower-level trauma centers or nontrauma centers, according to a new study from the Center for Pediatric Trauma Research and the Center for Injury ...

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