Adult prehospital scoring systems: a critical review

Abstract

The goal of trauma triage is to get the right patient to the right place at the right time. In an attempt to achieve this objective numerous authors have developed a variety of prehospital triage tools. Comparative evaluation to determine which of the currently developed triage tools has the greatest predictive power has been prevented mainly because of the varying definitions of major trauma. The use of small data sets and the absence of model validation techniques have also prevented the true worth of these triage tools from being accurately determined. The aim of this article is to critically appraise the major prehospital triage tools.

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prehospital triage trauma scoring trauma triage

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