Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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Comparative Study
Geriatric trauma patients-are they receiving trauma center care?
The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate whether severely injured geriatric patients were as likely to be treated at designated trauma centers (TCs) within the statewide trauma system. The secondary objective was to compare the demographic and injury characteristics of severely injured older and young patients who received care in TCs with the characteristics of those patients cared for in non-TCs. ⋯ Seriously injured older patients were less likely to receive care in a trauma center than younger patients.