Fig 1.
Map of the region Île-de-France with trauma center, SAMU dispatch center and ambulance stations location.
The Île de France region gathers 8 central emergency medical system dispatch centers (SAMU- Service d’Aide Médicale Urgente), 43 prehospital enhanced mobile care team stations (SMUR- Service Mobile d’Urgence et de Réanimation) and 6 level 1 Trauma Centers (TCs). The region is organized as an exclusive trauma system, conceiving severe trauma care only in the 6 designated TC among all existing tertiary care facilities (n = 87).
Fig 2.
Green filling: Traumabase data. Black boxes: RAAR and Traumabase linkage to identifiy the place of death of patients dead outside the trauma centre. Blue filling: Data extracted from SAMU archives. Pie: Population of hospital admissions extracted from RAAR, Traumabase and SAMU archives joint analysis
Table 1.
Characteristics of patients deceased during the 30 days after admission depending on the cause of death.
Table 2.
Prehospital demographic, physiologic and injury characteristics of patients according to the type of transport (# included in the multivariate analysis).
Table 3.
Severity, clinical characteristics and hospital course of trauma patients according to the type of transport.
Table 4.
Results of the multivariate analysis to identify variables associated to the secondary transfer.