This review provides an ethical analysis of disorders of consciousness (DoC) along the care
continuum, from preinjury to injury, acute care to subacute care and early rehabilitation, and …

Importance Trauma centers must be readily equipped to handle a variety of life-threatening
injuries and consequently may charge a fee for the activation of their trauma team. Regional …

The reduction in the blood supply following the 2019 coronavirus pandemic has been
exacerbated by the increased use of balanced resuscitation with blood components …

Importance Differences in time to diagnostic and therapeutic measures can contribute to
disparities in outcomes. However, whether there is an association of timeliness by sex for …

Introduction Over and under-triage represent a misallocation of resources that can affect
patient outcomes. The purpose of this study is to evaluate over and under-triage rates in …

Objective: A tiered trauma team activation system allocates resources proportional to
patients' needs based upon injury burden. Previous trauma hospital-triage models are …

Introduction The American College of Surgeons (ACS) delineates trauma team activation
(TTA) criteria to identify seriously injured trauma patients in the field. Patients are deemed to …

Large hospitals can be complex, with numerous discipline and subspecialty settings.
Patients may have limited medical knowledge, making it difficult for them to determine which …

Background The assignment of trauma team activation levels can be conceptualized as a
classification task. Machine learning models can be used to optimize classification …

Abstract Background New Injury Severity Score (NISS) and Glasgow Coma Scale, Age and
Pressure (GAP) scoring systems have cutoffs to define severe injury and identify high-risk …