Motor vehicle crash severity estimations by physicians and prehospital personnel.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether emergency physicians (EPs) and prehospital emergency medical services (EMS) personnel differ in their assessment of motor vehicle crash (MVC) severity and the potential for serious injury when viewing crash scene photographs.

Methods

Attending and resident EPs, paramedics, and emergency medical technicians (EMTs) from a single emergency medicine system used a web-based survey platform to rate the severity of 100 crash photographs on a 10-point Likert scale (Crash Score) and the potential for serious injury on a 0-100% scale (Injury Score). Serious injury was defined as skull fracture or intracranial bleeding, spine fracture or spinal cord injury, intrathoracic or intraabdominal injury, or long bone fracture. Crash and Injury Scores were stratif

SUBMITTER: Cleveland N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4915374 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul-Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature