Profile of trauma mortality and trauma care resources at rural emergency departments and urban trauma centres in Quebec: a population-based, retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

As Canada's second largest province, the geography of Quebec poses unique challenges for trauma management. Our primary objective was to compare mortality rates between trauma patients treated at rural emergency departments (EDs) and urban trauma centres in Quebec. As a secondary objective, we compared the availability of trauma care resources and services between these two settings.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

26 rural EDs and 33 level 1 and 2 urban trauma centres in Quebec, Canada.

Participants

79 957 trauma cases collected from Quebec's trauma registry.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Our primary outcome measure was mortality (prehospital, ED, in-hospital). Secondary outcome measures were the availability of trauma-rel

SUBMITTER: Fleet R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6549736 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature