Open AccessA comparison of rural versus urban trauma care
Author(s) -
Ari M. Lipsky,
Larry Karsteadt,
Marianne GauscheHill,
Sharon Hartmans,
Frederic S. Bongard,
H. Gill Cryer,
Patricia B Ekhardt,
A Loffredo,
Patricia Farmer,
Susan Whitney,
Roger Lewis
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of emergencies, trauma and shock
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.313
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 0974-519X
pISSN - 0974-2700
DOI - 10.4103/0974-2700.125639
Subject(s) - medicine , trauma center , glasgow coma scale , injury severity score , population , emergency medicine , logistic regression , rural area , blunt trauma , penetrating trauma , revised trauma score , odds ratio , injury prevention , poison control , blunt , retrospective cohort study , surgery , environmental health , pathology
We compared the survival of trauma patients in urban versus rural settings after the implementation of a novel rural non-trauma center alternative care model called the Model Rural Trauma Project (MRTP).