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    "pk": 7691,
    "title": "Guidelines for Field Triage of Injuried Patients",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published significant data and trends related to the national public health burden associated with trauma and injury. In the United States (U.S.), injury is the leading cause of death for persons aged 1-44 years. In 2008, approximately 30 million injuries resulted in an emergency department (ED) evaluation; 5.4 million (18%) of these patients were transported by Emergency Medical Services (EMS).1 EMS providers determine the severity of injury and begin initial management at the scene. The decisions to transport injured patients to the appropriate hospital are made through a process known as “field triage.” Since 1986, the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS-COT) has provided guidance for the field triage process though its “Field Triage Decision Scheme.” In 2005, the CDC, with financial support from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), collaborated with ASC-COT to convene the initial meeting of the National Expert Panel on Field Triage (the Panel) to revise the decision scheme. This revised version was published in 2006 by ASC-COT, and in 2009 the CDC published a detailed description of the scientific rational for revising the field triage criteria entitled, “Guidelines for FieldTriage of Injured Patients.”2-3 In 2011, the CDC reconvened the Panel to review the 2006 Guidelines and recommend any needed changes. We present the methodology, findings and updated guidelines from the Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) from the 2011 Panel along with commentary on the burden of injury in the U.S., and the role emergency physicians have in impacting morbidity and mortality at the population level. [West J Emerg Med. 2013;14(1):69-76.]",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [],
    "section": "Societal Impact on Emergency Care",
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        {
            "first_name": "Bharath",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Chakravarthy",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California Irvine, School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Irvine, California",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Christopher",
            "middle_name": "Eric",
            "last_name": "McCoy",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Shahram",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Lotfipour",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California Irvine, School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Irvine, California",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2013-01-24T17:17:10-05:00",
    "date_accepted": "2013-01-24T17:17:10-05:00",
    "date_published": "2013-01-24T17:17:56-05:00",
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