Potentially preventable trauma deaths: A retrospective review
Ben Beck1,2, Karen Smith1,3,4, Eric Mercier1,2, Stephen Bernard1,3,5, Colin Jones6, Ben Meadley4,6, Toby St Clair4,6, Paul A. Jennings1,4,6,7, Ziad Nehme1,3,4,6, Michael Burke8, Richard Bassed8,9, Mark Fitzgerald10,11, Rodney Judson12,13, Warwick Teague14,15,16, Biswadev Mitra1,11,7, Joseph Mathew10,11,7, Andrew Buck17, Dinesh Varma13,18, Belinda Gabbe1,19, Janet Bray1,20
1Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
2Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
3Centre for Research and Evaluation, Ambulance Victoria, Victoria, Australia
4Department of Community Emergency Health and Paramedic Practice, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
5The Intensive Care Unit, The Alfred Hospital
6Ambulance Victoria, Victoria, Australia
7Emergency and Trauma Centre, The Alfred, Victoria, Australia
8Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, Victoria, Australia
9Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
10Trauma Service, The Alfred, Victoria, Australia
11National Trauma Research Institute, Victoria, Australia
12General Surgery, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, Australia
13Department of Surgery, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
14Trauma Service, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Victoria, Australia
15Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
16Surgical Research Group, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Victoria, Australia
17Emergency Department, Royal Darwin Hospital, Northern Territory, Australia
18Radiology, The Alfred, Victoria, Australia
19Health Data Research UK, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea University, UK
20Prehospital, Resuscitation and Emergency Care Research Unit (PRECRU), School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia