title: Junior medical staff and the assessment of trauma.
abstract: Eighty junior doctors in the acute specialties received a postal questionnaire aimed at assessing their ability to assign priority to the treatment of patients who may have sustained serious trauma. Forty-eight doctors (60%) replied. Of these, three doctors (6%) correctly assigned all patients; 44% failed to identify the three patients in most urgent need of treatment.
authors.affiliation: Intensive Therapy Unit, South Cleveland Hospital, Middlesbrough.
authors.forename: P R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Wood
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Foley
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Peel
authors.forename: P G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Lawler
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004630:Emergencies; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education; D006801:Humans; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000175:diagnosis; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis*