Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 18, Issue 11 , Pages 1146-1150 , November 1989

The effect of urban trauma system hospital bypass on prehospital transport times and level 1 trauma patient survival

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  • Edward P Sloan

      Affiliations

    • Division on Trauma Surgery, Department of Surgery, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Edward P Sloan, MD, Division of Trauma Surgery, Rm 3241 Cook County Hospital, 1835 W Harrison Street, Chicago, Illinois 60612.
    • , MD
  • Edward P Callahan

      Affiliations

    • University of Illinois Affiliated Hospitals, Emergency Medicine Residency, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    • , RN, MS
  • Joan Duda

      Affiliations

    • Division on Trauma Surgery, Department of Surgery, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    • , MD, PhD
  • Charles M Sheaff

      Affiliations

    • Division on Trauma Surgery, Department of Surgery, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    • , MD
  • Arnold P Robin

      Affiliations

    • Division on Trauma Surgery, Department of Surgery, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    • , MD
  • John A Barrett

      Affiliations

    • Division on Trauma Surgery, Department of Surgery, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Received 6 January 1989 ,Revised 22 June 1989 ,Accepted 26 July 1989.

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 Presented at the 1st Scientific Assembly of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, January 1988.

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Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 18, Issue 11 , Pages 1146-1150 , November 1989

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