Can trauma scoring systems predict the nursing costs of trauma care?

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Title Can trauma scoring systems predict the nursing costs of trauma care?
Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Nursing
Department Nursing
Author Bond, A. Elaine
Date 1990-08
Description Scoring systems are presently employed to triage trauma patients to the appropriate facilities for care. Trauma patients need highly technical nursing skills, which are costly. Five scoring systems, the Glasgow Coma Score (GCS), Trauma Score (TS), Revised Trauma Score (RTS), CRAMS Scale, and Injury Severity Scale (ISS) were compared with an automated nursing acuity system at a Level I trauma center to determine if the trauma scores could also be used to predict the nursing costs of 448 trauma care patients who were aeromedically transported. One-way analysis of variance was performed with a resultant significant F test (p ? 0.000) for each of the five scoring systems. Bartlett and Cochran's tests checked homogeneity of variance. Student-Newman-Keuls posthoc tests showed additional differences within each scoring system. The GCS, TS, TS, CRAMS, and ISS can all predict nursing costs for trauma care.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Nurses' Instruction
Subject MESH Costs and Cost Analysis; Critical Care; Direct Service Costs; Emergency Medical Services; Emergency Nursing; Injury Severity Score
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MS
Language eng
Relation is Version of Digital reproduction of "Can trauma scoring systems predict the nursing costs of trauma care? Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library.
Rights Management © A. Elaine Bond.
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Source Original: University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library (no longer available)
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