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Journal of trauma and acute care surgery

Year: 2019
Articles in SafetyLit: 44

A descriptive study of US Special Operations Command fatalities, 2001-2018

A preliminary analysis of Level IV trauma centers within an organized trauma system

Addressing post-traumatic amnesia - recommendations for improving patient lives after brain injury

Age-related mortality in abusive head trauma

Alcohol-related trauma reinjury prevention with hospital-based screening in adult populations: an Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma evidence-based systematic review

Authors' response. 'Changes in US mass shooting deaths associated with the 1994-2004 federal assault weapon ban: analysis of open-source data.'

Blunt rupture of two cardiac chambers following a motor vehicle collision

Commentary: Blunt rupture of two cardiac chambers following a motor vehicle collision

Comparison of male and female victims of intimate partner homicide and bidirectionality- an analysis of the National Violent Death Reporting System

Comparison of the causes of death and wounding patterns in urban firearm-related violence and civilian public mass shooting events

Concomitant chest trauma and traumatic brain injury, biomarkers correlate with worse outcomes

Consequences of pre-injury utilization of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI): a systematic review and meta-analysis

Critical call for hospital-based domestic violence intervention: the Davis Challenge

Development and validation of a revised trauma-specific quality of life (RT-QoL) instrument

Does simulation work? Monthly trauma simulation and procedural training are associated with decreased time to intervention

Dose optimization of valproic acid in a lethal model of traumatic brain injury, hemorrhage and polytrauma in swine

Effect of mass shootings on gun sales - a 20 year perspective

Fall prevention initiative: a fall screening and intervention pilot study on the ambulatory setting

Financial toxicity is associated with worse physical and emotional long-term outcomes after traumatic injury

Firearm injury research and epidemiology: a review of the data, their limitations and how trauma centers can improve firearm injury research

Helmet use is associated with higher injury severity scores in alpine skiers and snowboarders evaluated at a Level 1 trauma center

Life-saving interventions in pediatric trauma: a National Trauma Data Bank Experience

Location, location, location: utilizing NBATS-2 in trauma system planning

Low-value clinical practices in injury care: a scoping review and expert consultation survey

One year mortality in geriatric trauma patients: improving upon the Geriatric Trauma Outcomes Score utilizing the Social Security Death Index

Perceived loss of social support after non-neurologic injury negatively impacts recovery

Pre-injury Palliative Performance Scale (PPS) predicts functional outcomes at 6 months in older trauma patients

Predictors and timing of amputations in military lower extremity trauma with arterial injury

Prehospital trauma experience of the Israel Defense Forces on the Syrian border 2013-2017

Psychiatric outcome at least 20 years after trauma: a survey on the status of subjective general health and psychiatric symptoms with a focus on posttraumatic stress disorder

RE: Organ injury scaling 2018 update: spleen, liver, and kidney

Reply: the Beers criteria: not just for geriatrics anymore? Analysis of Beers criteria medications in non-geriatric trauma patients and their association with falls

Rethinking the definition of major trauma: the Need For Trauma Intervention outperforms Injury Severity Score and Revised Trauma Score in 38 adult and pediatric trauma centers

Right hospital, right patients: penetrating injury patients treated at high-volume penetrating trauma centers have lower mortality

Screening and treating hospitalized trauma survivors for PTSD and depression

Should they stay or should they go? Who benefits from interfacility transfer to a higher level trauma center following initial presentation at a lower level trauma center

Straddle injuries to the bulbar urethra: what's the best choice for immediate management?

Taxonomy of multiple rib fractures: results of the Chest Wall Injury Society International Consensus Survey

The Beers criteria: not just for geriatrics anymore? Analysis of Beers criteria medications in non-geriatric trauma patients and their association with falls

The effect of cirrhosis on trauma outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

The health literacy of hospitalized trauma patients: we should be screening for deficiencies

The impact of medicaid expansion on trauma-related emergency department utilization: a national evaluation of policy implications

The promising future of drones in prehospital medical care and its application to battlefield medicine

Undertriaged trauma patients: who are we missing?