Nguyen, Tu Q. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4867-2098
Simpson, Pamela M.
Braaf, Sandra C.
Cameron, Peter A.
Judson, Rodney
Gabbe, Belinda J.
Article History
Received: 14 December 2017
Accepted: 29 May 2018
First Online: 5 June 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Alfred Hospital Human Research Ethics Committee (Project Number: 275/16), the Royal Melbourne Hospital (Project Number: 2016.179) and the Monash University Human Research Ethics Committee (Project Number: 0290). Access to the VSTR data for this study was granted by the Victorian State Trauma Outcomes Registry and Monitoring (VSTORM) Group after receiving ethical approvals. Identifiable information extracted from the VSTR was only used to identify the correct medical record for the sample of patients at the hospitals. Thereafter, all analyses were performed in non-identifiable format.
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