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Table 1 Study characteristics

From: Evaluation of elderly specific pre-hospital trauma triage criteria: a systematic review

References

Design

Country

Real life application or application to a database?

Database used

Derived criteria in study?

Elderly definition

Brown et al. [23]

Observational, retrospective

USA

Criteria applied to database

National Trauma Data Bank

No. substituted SBP < 110 instead of < 90 in 2011 ACS-COT Field Triage Scheme

 > 65 years

Caterino et al. [24]

Observational, retrospective. Interrupted time series analysis

USA

Real life. Before and after

Ohio trauma registry

No. before and after study. 3 years before Ohio Geriatric Trauma Triage Criteria adoption and 3 years after

 > 70 years

Cull et al. [25]

Observational, retrospective

USA

Criteria derived and applied to database

National Trauma Data Bank

Yes. Binary regression equations

 ≥ 65 years

Ichwan et al. [26]

Observational, retrospective

USA

Criteria applied to database

Ohio trauma registry

No. Applied Ohio Geriatric Trauma Triage Criteria to database

 ≥ 65 years

Newgard et al. [27]

Observational, retrospective

USA

Criteria applied to database

Trauma registries and ED and discharge databases linked to EMS records. 44 EMS agencies to 51 hospitals in 7 regions

No. Applied geriatric triage criteria to database

 ≥ 65 years

Newgard et al. [28]

Observational, retrospective

USA

Criteria derived and applied to database

Trauma registries and ED and discharge databases linked to EMS records. 94 EMS agencies to 122 hospitals in 7 regions

Yes. Classification and regression tree (CART) analysis

 ≥ 65 years

Newgard et al. [28]

Observational, retrospective

USA

Criteria derived and applied to database

Trauma registries and ED and discharge databases linked to EMS records. 94 EMS agencies to 122 hospitals in 7 regions

Yes. Classification and regression tree (CART) analysis

 ≥ 55 years

Nishijima et al. [30]

Observational, retrospective

USA

Criteria applied to database

Northern California, 5 EMS agencies transport patients to 11 general acute care hospitals

No

 ≥ 55 years

Scheetz [31]

Observational, retrospective. Interrupted time series analysis

USA

Real life. Before and after

National Automotive Sampling System Crashworthiness Data System

No

 ≥ 55 years

Wasserman et al. [32]

Consensus panel of specialist experts

USA

Consensus panel

9 experts- EMS, Pre-hospital, TBI, geriatric medicine, trauma surgery geriatric medicine

Yes, by expert panel

 ≥ 55 years

Werman et al. [33]

Literature search and observational retrospective

USA

Criteria derived from database

Ohio trauma registry

Yes, identified by literature search, derived from database

 ≥ 70 years