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Injuries in older adults are common and often involve use of emergency medical services (EMS) [1] and [2]. Current field trauma triage processes fail to identify a large proportion of seriously injured older patients, many of whom are transported to non-trauma hospitals (termed “under-triage”) [3], [4], [5], [6], [7] and [8]. This mismatch between patient need and hospital capability is a disparity in care that can result in worse clinical outcomes [9] and [10]. As the population of older adults in the U.S. continues to increase, under-triage and resulting disparities in trauma care are likely to become further exaggerated unless system-level changes are implemented. While the national field triage guidelines have been modified in an effort to close this gap [11], little evidence exists that these changes have been successful and out-of-hospital research on injured older adults remains sparse.
ntroductionInjuries in older adults are common and often involve use of emergency medical services (EMS) [1] and [2]. Current field trauma triage processes fail to identify a large proportion of seriously injured older patients, many of whom are transported to non-trauma hospitals (termed “under-triage”) [3], [4], [5], [6], [7] and [8]. This mismatch between patient need and hospital capability is a disparity in care that can result in worse clinical outcomes [9] and [10]. As the population of older adults in the U.S. continues to increase, under-triage and resulting disparities in trauma care are likely to become further exaggerated unless system-level changes are implemented. While the national field triage guidelines have been modified in an effort to close this gap [11], little evidence exists that these changes have been successful and out-of-hospital research on injured older adults remains sparse.
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