| Title |
Trauma Care and Case Fatality during a Period of Frequent, Violent Terror Attacks and Thereafter
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|---|---|
| Published in |
World Journal of Surgery, May 2012
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| DOI | 10.1007/s00268-012-1637-6 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Avraham I. Rivkind, Rony Blum, Irena Gershenstein, Yael Stein, Shula Coleman, Yoav Mintz, Gideon Zamir, Elihu D. Richter |
| Abstract |
From September 1999 through January 2004 during the second Intifada (al-Aqsa), there were frequent terror attacks in Jerusalem. We assessed the effects on case fatality of introducing a specialized, intensified approach to trauma care at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Hospital Shock Trauma Unit (HHSTU) and other level I Israeli trauma units. This approach included close senior supervision of prehospital triage, transport, and all surgical procedures and longer hospital stays despite high patient-staff ratios and low hospital budgets. Care for lower income patients also was subsidized. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 29 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 29 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 21% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 17% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 3 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 2 | 7% |
| Other | 5 | 17% |
| Unknown | 5 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 14 | 48% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 14% |
| Psychology | 3 | 10% |
| Arts and Humanities | 1 | 3% |
| Social Sciences | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 5 | 17% |