Title |
A traumatic tale of two cities: a comparison of outcomes for adults with major trauma who present to differing trauma centres in neighbouring Canadian provinces
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Published in |
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine, July 2017
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DOI | 10.1017/cem.2017.352 |
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Authors |
Jefferson Hayre, Colin Rouse, James French, Jacqueline Fraser, Ian Watson, Sue Benjamin, Allison Chisholm, George Stoica, Beth Sealy, Mete Erdogan, Robert Green, Paul Atkinson |
Abstract |
While the use of formal trauma teams is widely promoted, the literature is not clear that this structure provides improved outcomes over emergency physician delivered trauma care. The goal of this investigation was to examine if a trauma team model with a formalized, specialty-based trauma team, with specific activation criteria and staff composition, performs differently than an emergency physician delivered model. Our primary outcome was survival to discharge or 30 days. An observational registry-based study using aggregate data from both the New Brunswick and Nova Scotia trauma registries was performed with data from April 1, 2011 to March 31, 2013. Inclusion criteria included patients 16 years-old and older who had an Injury Severity Score greater than 12, who suffered a kinetic injury and arrived with signs of life to a level-1 trauma centre. 266 patients from the trauma team model and 111 from the emergency physician model were compared. No difference was found in the primary outcome of proportion of survival to discharge or 30 days between the two systems (0.88, n=266 vs. 0.89, n=111; p=0.8608). We were unable to detect any difference in survival between a trauma team and an emergency physician delivered model. |
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United Kingdom | 3 | 13% |
Timor-Leste | 1 | 4% |
United Arab Emirates | 1 | 4% |
Unknown | 10 | 43% |
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Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 17% |
Scientists | 2 | 9% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 4% |
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Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 13% |
Other | 2 | 13% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 2 | 13% |
Student > Bachelor | 1 | 6% |
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Unknown | 1 | 6% |
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Philosophy | 1 | 6% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 6% |
Social Sciences | 1 | 6% |
Psychology | 1 | 6% |
Other | 2 | 13% |
Unknown | 2 | 13% |