Objectives The objective was to identify factors associated with transport of injured older
adults meeting statewide geriatric trauma triage criteria to a trauma center. Methods An …

Objectives To evaluate the effect on outcomes of the Ohio Department of Public Safety
statewide geriatric triage criteria, established in 2009 for emergency medical services (EMS) …

Study objective We evaluate the sensitivity of Ohio's 2009 emergency medical services
(EMS) geriatric trauma triage criteria compared with the previous adult triage criteria in …

Introduction: In January of 2010, North Carolina (NC) USA implemented state-wide Trauma
Triage Destination Plans (TTDPs) to provide standardized guidelines for Emergency …

Study objective To identify predictors of undertriage among older injured Medicare
beneficiaries, identify any regions in which undertriage is more likely to occur, and examine …

Background Elderly patients are frequently undertriaged. However, the associations
between triage patterns and outcomes from a population perspective are unknown. We …

Objective: It is well established that seriously injured older adults are under-triaged to tertiary
trauma centers. However, the survival benefit of tertiary trauma centers (TC) compared to a …

Introduction: The geriatric population is unique in the type of traumatic injuries sustained,
physiological responses to those injuries, and an overall higher mortality when compared to …

Background The objective of this study was to compare the triage category assigned to older
trauma patients with younger trauma patients upon arrival to the emergency department …

Study objective We sought to (1) define the high-risk elderly trauma patient based on
prognostic differences associated with different injury patterns and (2) derive alternative field …