Systematic review and need assessment of pediatric trauma outcome benchmarking tools for low-resource settings

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• 作者：Etienne St-Louis ; Jade Séguin ; Daniel Roizblatt…
• 关键词：Pediatric trauma ; Benchmarking tool ; Trauma score ; Systematic review
• 刊名：Pediatric Surgery International
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：33
• 期：3
• 页码：299-309
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• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Pediatrics; Surgery; Pediatric Surgery;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1437-9813
• 卷排序：33

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IntroductionTrauma is a leading cause of mortality and disability in children worldwide. The World Health Organization reports that 95% of all childhood injury deaths occur in Low–Middle-Income Countries (LMIC). Injury scores have been developed to facilitate risk stratification, clinical decision making, and research. Trauma registries in LMIC depend on adapted trauma scores that do not rely on investigations that require unavailable material or human resources. We sought to review and assess the existing trauma scores used in pediatric patients. Our objective is to determine their wideness of use, validity, setting of use, outcome measures, and criticisms. We believe that there is a need for an adapted trauma score developed specifically for pediatric patients in low-resource settings.