@article{ref1,
title="Injury assessment of individuals wounded in the Lushan earthquake and the emergency department workload: a corresponding correlation study",
journal="Disaster medicine and public health preparedness",
year="2020",
author="Tang, Shiyuan and Ni, Fen and Hu, Hai and Du, Xiaojiong and Zhu, Shuheng and Wang, Haoyuan and Niu, Zhendong and He, Yarong and Cao, Yu",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: In this study, we aimed to evaluate the correlation between the trauma score of individuals wounded in the Lushan earthquake and emergency workload for treatment. We further created a trauma score-emergency workload calculation model.   METHODS: We included data from patients wounded in the Lushan earthquake and treated at West China Hospital, Sichuan University. We calculated scores per the following models separately: Revised Trauma Score (RTS), Prehospital Index (PHI), Circulation Respiration Abdominal Movement Speech (CRAMS), Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System (TISS-28), and Nursing Activities Score (NAS). We assessed the association between values for CRAMS, PHI, and RTS and those for TISS-28 and NAS. Subsequently, we built a trauma score-emergency workload calculation model to quantitative workload estimation.   RESULTS: Significant correlations were observed for all pairs of trauma scoring models with emergency workload scoring models. TISS-28 score was significantly associated with PHI score and RTS; however, no significant correlation was observed between the TISS-28 score and CRAMS score.   CONCLUSIONS: CRAMS, PHI, and RTS were consistent in evaluating the injury condition of wounded individuals; TISS-28 and NAS scores were consistent in evaluating the required treatment workload. Dynamic changes in emergency workload in unit time were closely associated with wounded patient visits.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1935-7893",
doi="10.1017/dmp.2020.231",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2020.231"
}