Association of Police Transport With Survival Among Patients With Penetrating Trauma in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Police in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, routinely transport patients with penetrating trauma to nearby trauma centers. During the past decade, this practice has gained increased acceptance, but outcomes resulting from police transport of these patients have not been recently evaluated.

Objective

To assess mortality among patients with penetrating trauma who are transported to trauma centers by police vs by emergency medical services (EMS).

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study used the Pennsylvania Trauma Outcomes Study registry and included 3313 adult patients with penetrating trauma from January 1, 2014, to December 31, 2018. Outcomes were compared between patients transported by police (n = 1970) and patients transported by EMS (n = 1343) to

SUBMITTER: Winter E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7835719 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature