Substantial heterogeneity in trauma triage tool characteristic operationalization for identification of major trauma: a hybrid systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Trauma Triage Tools (TTTs) support pre-hospital staff to identify major trauma patients based on prehospital characteristics and bring them to appropriate trauma centres. However, while triaging trauma has been examined extensively, there appears to be little consensus on how variables within TTTs are applied. We therefore aimed to examine the prehospital characteristics and their operationalization applied in the international literature in TTTs.

Methods

We applied a hybrid systematic review approach. Searches were conducted in multiple databases. We initially searched for systematic reviews that analyse prehospital characteristics applied in TTTs, then supplemented this with an updated search of original TTT papers from November 2019.

Results

We identified 9

SUBMITTER: Donnelly NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11842439 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature