Cost-Effectiveness of Field Trauma Triage among Injured Adults Served by Emergency Medical Services.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma sets national targets for the accuracy of field trauma triage at ≥95% sensitivity and ≥65% specificity, yet the cost-effectiveness of realizing these goals is unknown. We evaluated the cost-effectiveness of current field trauma triage practices compared with triage strategies consistent with the national targets.

Study design

This was a cost-effectiveness analysis using data from 79,937 injured adults transported by 48 emergency medical services agencies to 105 trauma and nontrauma hospitals in 6 regions of the western United States from 2006 through 2008. Incremental differences in survival, quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), costs, and the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (costs per QALY gained) were est

SUBMITTER: Newgard CD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4975576 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature