Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Oct 2018
Evaluation of the trauma triage accuracy in a Level 1 Australian trauma centre.
To assess the rate of undertriage of major trauma patients and to assess factors contributing to undertriage in a modern Australian Level 1 trauma centre. ⋯ In this cohort of major trauma, a 6.1% undertriage performance of the triage tool was observed. Sub-analysis of the data showed that elderly patients were more likely to be undertriaged.