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The word "Accident" vs collision ( taking responsibility)
Right, but who's going to judge that?
It can't be prejudged. Unless we have EMTs on the scene for each incident, which is unrealistic. It costs money to transport people to the ER for skinned knees. But if they are there they have to transport, I think. So we need a better standard? No. I know you wouldn't report to the ER unless you needed to, I trust your judgement. -- _______________________ALL AMIGA IN MY MIND_______________________ ------------------"Buddy Holly, the Texas Elvis"------------------ in.edu__________ |
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The word "Accident" vs collision ( taking responsibility)
On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 13:24:04 -0500, "frkrygow"
wrote: If it requires professional care, it's a serious incident. Requires, Frank. Right, but who's going to judge that? I'm closely related to an ER physician. According to what he tells me, they don't turn anyone away, even if the injury is laughably minor. Ask the ER physician about whether a "trauma severity score" is assigned to ER admissions for trauma. Or, if not, in his opinion it would be possible to assign a score based upon such things as the level of care required: Washing the wound and applying a dressing -- go forth and sin no more vs. recheck with your family doc in n days? Stitches and/or an X-Ray and/or a cast? Overnight admission for observation for head injury? Surgery or traction? ICU admission and life support? |
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The word "Accident" vs collision ( taking responsibility)
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 11:58:07 -0600, Zippy the Pinhead
wrote: Ask the ER physician about whether a "trauma severity score" is assigned to ER admissions for trauma. Or, if not, in his opinion it would be possible to assign a score based upon such things as the level of care required: Washing the wound and applying a dressing -- go forth and sin no more vs. recheck with your family doc in n days? Stitches and/or an X-Ray and/or a cast? Overnight admission for observation for head injury? Surgery or traction? ICU admission and life support? And we could ask how they bill the treatment, but it wouldn't have any more relevancy to the discussion. Finding an easy, or at least manageable, way to decide the level of accident versus incident or whatever the final categories are, and asking how ER people rate incidents internally have no relevance. It doesn't even show up on collected accident statisitcs. Going to ER is drastically different in different parts of the same county or region in Maryland. Sit around a regional ER collector, such as the one near Bowie, MD is completely diffferent from one in the inner city. A collector has a predominence of serious injury, especially auto accidents: in the inner city, it is a substitute for having insurance (a major issue with inner city hospital/clinic systems is getting uninsured or programmed insured to use clinics rather than the more expensive ER facilities). So it is not a good razor to grade accidents or incidents, except within a narrow range and area. Curtis L. Russell Odenton, MD (USA) Just someone on two wheels... |
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The word "Accident" vs collision ( taking responsibility)
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 13:50:45 -0500, Curtis L. Russell
wrote: So it is not a good razor to grade accidents or incidents, except within a narrow range and area. Agreed. I suppose some kind of sampling could be used, but it would have to be rigorously constructed in order to be generalized into any kind of useful conclusions. |
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