Association of Prehospital Mode of Transport With Mortality in Penetrating Trauma: A Trauma System-Level Assessment of Private Vehicle Transportation vs Ground Emergency Medical Services.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Time to definitive care following injury is important to the outcomes of trauma patients. Prehospital trauma care is provided based on policies developed by individual trauma systems and is an important component of the care of injured patients. Given a paucity of systems-level trauma research, considerable variability exists in prehospital care policies across trauma systems, potentially affecting patient outcomes.

Objective

To evaluate whether private vehicle prehospital transport confers a survival advantage vs ground emergency medical services (EMS) transport following penetrating injuries in urban trauma systems.

Design, setting, and participants

Retrospective cohort study of data included in the National Trauma Data Bank from January 1, 2010, through

SUBMITTER: Wandling MW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5838586 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature