Open AccessDirect (presenting primarily to trauma center) versus indirect (referred or transferred) admission of patients to the Trauma Centre of King George Medical University: One-year prospective pilot study
Author(s) -
Vikas Verma,
Girish Kumar Singh,
Santosh Kumar,
Vineet Sharma,
Vijaysheel Gautam,
Suresh Kumar
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of critical illness and injury science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.274
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 2231-5004
pISSN - 2229-5151
DOI - 10.4103/2229-5151.164938
Subject(s) - medicine , trauma center , head trauma , major trauma , emergency medicine , injury severity score , pediatrics , surgery , injury prevention , poison control , retrospective cohort study
India does not have a trauma registry. There is lack of base line demographic data of trauma victims that present directly to the trauma center and those that are transferred to the trauma center.