Department Blog

Posted 3/31/2019 by Linda Kesselring

Study of Scoring Systems for Prehospital Trauma Triage

Jon Mark Hirshon, MD, PhD, MPH, is the senior author of the article titled “Correlation Between the Revised Trauma Score and Injury Severity Score: Implications for Prehospital Trauma Triage,” published in the March/April issue of Prehospital Emergency Care. His collaborators in the study that led to this publication are lead author Samuel M. Galvagno, Jr, DO, PhD, Department of Anesthesiology; Michael S. Massey, MS, a medical student at the time of the study; Pierre Bouzat, MD, PhD, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble; Matthew J. Levy, DO, MSc, and Michael G. Millin, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins Medicine; Roumen Vesselinov, PhD, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health; and Deborah M. Stein, MD, MPH, and Thomas M. Scalea, MD, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center.