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ReviewCritical care (London, England)2008

Pro/con debate: is the scoop and run approach the best approach to trauma services organization?

Barbara Haas, Avery B Nathens

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Review in Critical care (London, England), 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Prehospital triage for mass casualty incidents using the META method for early surgical assessment: retrospective validation of a hospital trauma registry.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2020
    Observational
  9. Fluid resuscitation in trauma: what are the best strategies and fluids?International journal of emergency medicine · 2019
    Review
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  13. Prehospital care in patients with severe traumatic brain injury: does the level of prehospital care influence mortality?European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2013
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  15. New trends in resuscitation.Current problems in surgery · 2011
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  17. Advances in resuscitation strategies.International journal of surgery (London, England) · 2011
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Barbara HaasDepartment of Surgery, University of Toronto, St Michael's Hospital, Queen Wing, 3N-073, 30 Bond Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5B 1W8. barbara.haas@utoronto.ca
Avery B Nathens

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

You are asked to be involved in organizing a trauma service for a major urban center. You are asked to make a decision on whether the services general approach to trauma in the city (which does have a well-established trauma center) will be scoop and run (minimal resuscitation at the scene with a goal to getting the patient to a trauma center as quickly as possible) or on-the-scene resuscitation with transfer following some degree of stabilization.

Indexed as

HumansLife Support SystemsTrauma CentersTrauma Severity IndicesWounds and Injuries

Identifiers

PMID18828868
PMCPMC2592727

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