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Adult prehospital scoring systems: a critical review

Accident and Emergency Medicine, University College London Hospital and Leonard Cheshire Department of Conflict Recovery, University College London, UK, johnbatchelor{at}msn.com

The goal of trauma triage is to get the right patient to the right place at the right time. In an attempt to achieve this objective numerous authors have developed a variety of prehospital triage tools. Comparative evaluation to determine which of the currently developed triage tools has the greatest predictive power has been prevented mainly because of the varying definitions of major trauma. The use of small data sets and the absence of model validation techniques have also prevented the true worth of these triage tools from being accurately determined. The aim of this article is to critically appraise the major prehospital triage tools.

Key Words: prehospital triage • trauma scoring • trauma triage

Trauma, Vol. 2, No. 4, 253-260 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/146040860000200402


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