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The role of prehospital care providers in the advancement of public healthN Clay Mann
Intermountain Injury Control Research Center, University of Utah, School of Medicine, Salt Lake City 84108-1284, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 6:S63-7. 2002
Injury mortality following the loss of air medical support for rural interhospital transportN Clay Mann
Intermountain Injury Control Research Center, University of Utah, School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
Acad Emerg Med 9:694-8. 2002..This study evaluated variation in mortality among interfacility transfers three years before and after discontinuation of a rotor-wing transport service...
The use of national highway traffic safety administration uniform prehospital data elements in state emergency medical services data collection systemsN Clay Mann
Intermountain Injury Control Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City 84108 1284, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 8:29-33. 2004..The objective of this study was to determine the extent to which states incorporate the Uniform Prehospital EMS Data Elements into statewide EMS data collection systems...
Mortality among seriously injured patients treated in remote rural trauma centers before and after implementation of a statewide trauma systemN Clay Mann
Department of Emergency Medicine, Univeristy of Utah, School of Medicine, Salt Lake City 84108 9161, USA
Med Care 39:643-53. 2001..Injury mortality in rural regions remains high with little evidence that trauma system implementation has benefited rural populations...
Survival among injured geriatric patients during construction of a statewide trauma systemN C Mann
Intermountain Injury Control Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, 410 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84108 9161, USA
J Trauma 50:1111-6. 2001..This study estimates risk-adjusted survival for injured geriatric patients during implementation of the Washington State trauma system...
Defining research criteria to characterize medical necessity in emergency medical services: a consensus among experts at the Neely ConferenceN Clay Mann
Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 8:138-53. 2004..The goal of the Neely Conference was to bring together EMS experts to define a set of criteria to be used in research studies evaluating dispatch triage and field triage systems...
Public health preparedness for mass-casualty events: a 2002 state-by-state assessmentN Clay Mann
Intermountain Injury Control Research Center, 615 Arapeen Drive, Suite 202, Salt Lake City, UT 84108 1284, USA
Prehosp Disaster Med 19:245-55. 2004..The objective of this study is to characterize state-level disaster readiness soon after September 2001 and correlate readiness with existing programs providing an organized response to medical emergencies...
Trauma system structure and viability in the current healthcare environment: a state-by-state assessmentN Clay Mann
Intermountain Injury Control Research Center, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108 1284, USA
J Trauma 58:136-47. 2005..The purpose of this research is to characterize the current structure and viability of state trauma systems in the U.S...
Confronting the Ethical Conduct of Resuscitation Research: a consensus opinionN Clay Mann
Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Acad Emerg Med 12:1078-81. 2005....
Are statewide trauma registries comparable? Reaching for a national trauma datasetN Clay Mann
Department of Pediatrics, Intermountain Injury Control Research Center, University of Utah, School of Medicine, 295 Chipeta Way, P O Box 581289, Salt Lake City, UT 84158 1289, USA
Acad Emerg Med 13:946-53. 2006..Statewide trauma registries have proliferated in the last decade, suggesting that information could be aggregated to provide an accurate depiction of serious injury in the United States...
Underestimating injury mortality using statewide databasesN Clay Mann
Intermountain Injury Control Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108, USA
J Trauma 58:162-7. 2005....
Evaluation of protocols allowing emergency medical technicians to determine need for treatment and transportT Schmidt
Oregon Health Sciences University, School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Portland 97201 3098, USA
Acad Emerg Med 7:663-9. 2000..To determine whether emergency medical technicians (EMTs) can safely apply protocols to assign transport options and to assess agreement between groups of providers on application of the protocols...
Impact of a statewide trauma system on rural emergency department patient assessment documentation. OHSU Rural Trauma Research GroupJ R Hedges
Oregon Health Sciences University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Portland 97201, USA
Acad Emerg Med 4:268-76. 1997..To determine the association of rural ED patient assessment documentation with state trauma system implementation, hospital trauma categorization level (i.e., Level-3 vs Level-4), injury diagnosis, and patient demographics...
Preferential benefit of implementation of a statewide trauma system in one of two adjacent statesR J Mullins
Department of Surgery, Oregon Health Sciences University, School of Medicine, Portland 97201 3098, USA
J Trauma 44:609-16; discussion 617. 1998..An alternative explanation for improved outcome, however, is favorable concurrent temporal trends, e.g., new technologies and treatments...
Trauma system impact on admission site: a comparison of two statesN C Mann
Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University, School of Medicine, Portland 97201 3098, USA
J Trauma 46:631-7. 1999..To introduce a measure assessing statewide hospital admission patterns for trauma and evaluate its utility in identifying significant admission redistributions in neighboring states as a function of trauma system implementation...
Rural hospital transfer patterns before and after implementation of a statewide trauma system. OHSU Rural Trauma Research GroupN C Mann
Oregon Health Sciences University, School of Medicine, Portland 97201, USA
Acad Emerg Med 4:764-71. 1997..To evaluate trauma transfer practices in rural Oregon before and after implementation of a statewide trauma system...
A population-based study of crashes involving 16- and 17-year-old drivers: the potential benefit of graduated driver licensing restrictionsN Z Cvijanovich
Intermountain Injury Control Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Pediatrics 107:632-7. 2001..To evaluate the potential effectiveness of graduated driver licensing programs using population-based linked data for motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) that involved teenaged drivers (TDs)...
Identification of children at very low risk of clinically-important brain injuries after head trauma: a prospective cohort studyNathan Kuppermann
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Davis, CA, USA
Lancet 374:1160-70. 2009..CT imaging of head-injured children has risks of radiation-induced malignancy. Our aim was to identify children at very low risk of clinically-important traumatic brain injuries (ciTBI) for whom CT might be unnecessary...
Influence of trauma system implementation on process of care delivered to seriously injured patients in rural trauma centersC J Olson
Department of Surgery, Oregon Health Sciences University, School of Medicine, Portland, OR 97201, USA
Surgery 130:273-9. 2001..Evidence shows improved process of care may have benefitted patients with serious but survivable injuries. Measurement of process of care is an alternative to mortality analysis as an indication of the quality of care...
Population-based research assessing the effectiveness of trauma systemsR J Mullins
Department of Surgery, Oregon Health Sciences University, School of Medicine, Portland 97201 3098, USA
J Trauma 47:S59-66. 1999..To review published evidence regarding the effectiveness of trauma systems by using population-based data...
Use of resuscitation skills by paramedics caring for critically injured children in OregonE Su
Oregon Health Sciences University, School of Medicine, Portland, OR, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 1:123-7. 1997..2) To determine whether EMT-Ps use resuscitation skills less frequently for injured children than for older patients...
Systematic review of published evidence regarding trauma system effectivenessN C Mann
Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University, School of Medicine, Portland 97201 3098, USA
J Trauma 47:S25-33. 1999..Provide a systematic review of the published literature assessing the affect of trauma center/system implementation on patient outcomes...
Hospital follow-up of patients categorized as not needing an ambulance using a set of emergency medical technician protocolsT A Schmidt
Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland 92701 3098, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 5:366-70. 2001..Using hospital outcomes, this study evaluated emergency medical technicians' (EMTs') ability to safely apply protocols to assign transport options...
Multicenter cohort study of out-of-hospital pediatric cardiac arrestFrank W Moler
Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Crit Care Med 39:141-9. 2011..These objectives were for planning an interventional trial of therapeutic hypothermia after pediatric cardiac arrest...
Assessing the effectiveness and optimal structure of trauma systems: a consensus among expertsN C Mann
Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University, School of Medicine, Portland 97201 3098, USA
J Trauma 47:S69-74. 1999..Second, to ascertain whether experts agree on the optimal structure of trauma systems...
A randomized controlled trial to assess decay in acquired knowledge among paramedics completing a pediatric resuscitation courseE Su
Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University, School of Medicine, Portland 97201 3098, USA
Acad Emerg Med 7:779-86. 2000..Critical pediatric illness or injury occurs infrequently in out-of-hospital settings, making it difficult for paramedics to maintain physical assessment, treatment, and procedure skills...
Intracranial hemorrhage after blunt head trauma in children with bleeding disordersLois K Lee
Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
J Pediatr 158:1003-1008.e1-2. 2011..To determine computerized tomography (CT) use and prevalence of traumatic intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) in children with and without congenital and acquired bleeding disorders...
Patients with chest pain calling 9-1-1 or self-transporting to reach definitive care: which mode is quicker?Caroline B Hutchings
Intermountain Injury Control Research Center, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108 1284, USA
Am Heart J 147:35-41. 2004..We examined differences in transport times for patients with chest pain who used private transportation compared with patients who used emergency medical services (EMS) to reach definitive medical care...
Interobserver agreement in assessment of clinical variables in children with blunt head traumaMarc H Gorelick
Department of Pediatrics, Section of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Acad Emerg Med 15:812-8. 2008..The objective was to determine the interobserver agreement in the assessment of historical and physical examination findings of children undergoing emergency department (ED) evaluation for blunt head trauma...
Epidemiology of psychiatric-related visits to emergency departments in a multicenter collaborative research pediatric networkPrashant Mahajan
Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Children s Hospital of Michigan and Wayne State University, 3901 Beaubien, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 25:715-20. 2009..Describe the epidemiology of pediatric psychiatric-related visits to emergency departments participating in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network...
Do patients refusing transport remember descriptions of risks after initial advanced life support assessment?T A Schmidt
Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University, School of Medicine, Portland 97201, USA
Acad Emerg Med 5:796-801. 1998..To determine patient recall and understanding of instructions given to patients who refuse transport after initial paramedic assessment and medical treatment...
Factors associated with cervical spine injury in children after blunt traumaJulie C Leonard
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis Children s Hospital, One Children s Place, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Ann Emerg Med 58:145-55. 2011..The purpose of our study is to identify risk factors associated with cervical spine injury in children after blunt trauma...
A population-based assessment of pediatric all-terrain vehicle injuriesN Z Cvijanovich
Intermountain Injury Control Research Center, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Pediatrics 108:631-5. 2001..Efforts to educate parents regarding the risks of ATV use, proper supervision, and use of safety equipment are warranted. Manufacturers of ATVs should continue to improve the safety profile of these inherently unstable vehicles...
Association between prepayment systems and emergency medical services use among patients with acute chest discomfort syndrome. For the Rapid Early Action for Coronary Treatment (REACT) StudyD B Siepmann
Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR, USA
Ann Emerg Med 35:573-8. 2000..We determine whether the presence of (or enrollment in) prepayment plans increase EMS use among patients with acute chest discomfort, particularly those residing in low-income areas, those lacking private insurance, or both...
Evaluating state capacity to collect and analyze emergency medical services dataMichael Ely
University of Utah School of Medicine, Intermountain Injury Control Research Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 10:14-20. 2006..Centralized emergency medical services (EMS) data collection is critical to evaluating EMS system effectiveness, yet a general lack of EMS data persists at local, state, and national levels...
Early resuscitation of children with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injuryMichelle Zebrack
Division of Pediatric Critical Care, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City Utah, USA
Pediatrics 124:56-64. 2009....
Against all advice: an analysis of out-of-hospital refusals of careStacey Knight
Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Ann Emerg Med 42:689-96. 2003....
Repeat patients to the emergency department in a statewide databaseLawrence J Cook
Intermountain Injury Control Research Center, University of Utah School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Acad Emerg Med 11:256-63. 2004..To describe the epidemiology of repeat users of the emergency department (ED) using a statewide database...
Resource utilization and its management in splenic traumaAmalia Cochran
Intermountain Injury Control Research Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Am J Surg 187:713-9. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: Nonoperative management of splenic injury is more common at trauma centers, and splenic trauma management may be more costly at trauma centers...
Criteria currently used to evaluate dispatch triage systems: where do they leave us?Terri A Schmidt
Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 8:126-9. 2004..This commentary reviews the methods used in the current literature to evaluate dispatch triage systems...
Revisiting the emergency medicine services for children research agenda: priorities for multicenter research in pediatric emergency careSteven Zane Miller
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Morgan Stanley Children s Hospital of New York Presbyterian, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
Acad Emerg Med 15:377-83. 2008..They sought to prioritize PECARN research efforts, to guide investigators planning to conduct research in PECARN, and to describe the creation of a prioritized EMSC research agenda specific for multicenter research...
Perceived challenges to obtaining informed consent for a time-sensitive emergency department study of pediatric status epilepticus: results of two focus groupsJames M Chamberlain
Department of Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Children s National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
Acad Emerg Med 16:763-70. 2009..The objective was to describe the perspective of research personnel on issues of informed consent in a time-sensitive clinical study under emergency circumstances...
Variation in ancillary testing among pediatric asthma patients seen in emergency departmentsRachel M Stanley
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Acad Emerg Med 14:532-8. 2007..Variation in the management of acute pediatric asthma within emergency departments is largely unexplored...
Validation of a predictive model for automated external defibrillator placement in rural AmericaGreg Mears
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599 7594, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 10:186-93. 2006..We set out to develop a cost-effective rural AED placement model and to test the validity of the resulting model using OOHCAs attended by EMS...
Survival of seriously injured patients first treated in rural hospitalsRichard J Mullins
Department of Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97201 3098, USA
J Trauma 52:1019-29. 2002..Patients injured in rural counties are hypothesized to have improved survival if local hospitals are categorized as Level III, Level IV, and Level V trauma centers...
Developing research criteria to define medical necessity in emergency medical servicesDavid C Cone
Section of Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06519 1315, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 8:116-25. 2004..5. These research questions are important, and standard sets of outcome measures are needed so that different studies and innovative programs can be compared...
State trauma registries: survey and update-2004Karen S Guice
Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA
J Trauma 62:424-35. 2007..This study was undertaken to assess the current status of statewide trauma registries to facilitate a design and plans for a National Trauma Registry for Children...
Field triage systems: methodologies from the literatureDavid C Cone
Division of EMS, Section of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06519 1315, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 8:130-7. 2004..These may include (for triage criteria) vital signs, chief complaints, and physical exam findings, and (for outcome measures) hospital admission, critical events, death, and diagnosis...
Risk of pediatric back-over injuries in residential driveways by vehicle typeKerrie A Pinkney
Children s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 22:402-7. 2006..Using vehicle registration information, we set out to estimate the relative risk of driveway back-over injuries to children by type of vehicle...
Adverse events associated with lay emergency response programs: the public access defibrillation trial experienceMary Ann Peberdy
Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Box 908204, Richmond, VA 23298, USA
Resuscitation 70:59-65. 2006..The adverse event (AE) profile of lay volunteer CPR and public access defibrillation (PAD) programs is unknown. We undertook to investigate the frequency, severity, and type of AE's occurring in widespread PAD implementation...
Characteristics of volunteers responding to emergencies in the Public Access Defibrillation TrialWilliam J Groh
The Department of Medicine, Krannert Institute of Cardiology, Indiana University, 1800 N Capitol Avenue, Room E406, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Resuscitation 72:193-9. 2007..To evaluate the characteristics of volunteers responding to emergencies in the North American Public Access Defibrillation (PAD) Trial...
Executive summary: the 2005 AEM Consensus Conference on Ethical Conduct of Resuscitation ResearchTerri A Schmidt
Acad Emerg Med 12:1017-8. 2005
