Undertriage of Severe Geriatric Trauma Patients: Who Are We Missing?

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Geriatric trauma patients have unique risk factors for being undertriaged, which differ from those in young trauma patients. This study aimed to identify these risk factors and their implications for public health stakeholders and trauma surgeons to improve prehospital triage of geriatric trauma patients.

Materials and methods

Data were retrospectively reviewed from single level-1 trauma center database in patients aged ≥65 years, with Injury Severity Score (ISS) >15 between 2016 and 2020. Pre-hospital and hospital factors were compared between correctly triaged and undertriaged patients. The probabilities of survival and outcomes for correct and undertriage were calculated using the Trauma and Injury Severity Score (TRISS), observed (O):expected (E) ratio, z-score,

SUBMITTER: Park J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12206593 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature