Elderly patients less likely to be transported to trauma centres than younger ones
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 07:14
in Health & Medicine
Elderly trauma patients appear to be less likely than younger patients to be transported to a trauma centre, possibly because of unconscious age bias among emergency medical services personnel, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Surgery...
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