Historical perceptions regarding the severity of traumatic spinal cord injury has led to considerable disparity in triage to tertiary care centers. This article retrospectively reviews a large regional trauma database to analyze whether the diagnosis of spinal trauma affected patient transfer timing and patterns. The Pennsylvania Trauma database was retrospectively reviewed. All acute trauma pa...

With great interest we have read the excellent publication in the recent SMW from our dear colleagues Catherine Heim et al. from the University Hospital of Lausanne on trauma patients from their local registry [1]. Anyhow we would like to bring to your attention the last sentence of the introduction section, were the authors state the following: “To our knowledge, this is the first comprehensiv...

Dr. Parker is Director of Research and Academic Affairs at the National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare (MedStar Health) in Washington, DC. Her research focuses on human factors and applied psychology, with an emphasis on understanding team performance in high-risk healthcare settings. Dr. Parker is currently an AHRQ postdoctoral fellow, researching team coordination during trauma resusc...

S. Xu, S. Roys, J. Racz, D. Shi, J. Zhuo, R. Gullapalli, and G. Fiskum Core for Translational Research in Imaging @ Maryland (C-TRIM), University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States, Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States, Anesthesiology and the Center for Shock Trauma and Anesthesiology Researc...

About the author: Dr Uthman Olalekan works with the Center for Evidence-based Global Health, a non profit sharing educational and research organization. Research interests include evidence-based medicine, bibliometric analysis, public health nutrition, and demography and population health. Olalekan is also fellow of South African Cochrane Centre / Nuffield Commonwealth Reviews for Africa Progra...

Trauma is the leading cause of mortality in children over one year of age in industrialized countries. In this retrospective study we reviewed all chest trauma in pediatric patients admitted to Mansoura University Emergency Hospital from January 1997 to January 2007. Our hospital received 472 patients under the age of 18. Male patients were 374 with a mean age of 9.2±4.9 years. Causes were pene...

The early 1980s constituted a watershed in science, mainly concerning the extent and nature of globalization and commercialization of scientific research, and its impact upon the university. Considerable debate has arisen about the sources of this transition, but aside from a few lone voices, the scholarly literature has neglected the concurrent rise of the contract research organization (CRO) ...