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Necessity of critical ED interventions is another measure that has been proposed to evaluate the appropriateness of TA criteria.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Two-year retrospective cohort study of 1715 patients from our trauma registry at a Level 1 pediatric trauma center. We abstracted data on acute interventions, level and criterion of TA, ED disposition, and mortality. We report odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs), positive predictive value, and frequency of acute interventions.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Trauma activation was initiated for 947 (55%) of the 1715 patients. There were 426 ED interventions performed on 235 patients (14%); 67.8% were in level 1 activations; 17.6% in level 2, and 14.6% in level 3. Highest-level activations were highly associated with need for ED interventions (OR, 16.1; 95% CI, 11.5\u201322.4). The ORs for requiring an ED intervention were low for lower level activations (OR, 0.4; 95% CI, 0.3\u20130.5), trauma service consults (OR, 0.3; 95% CI, 0.2\u20130.4), and certain mechanism-based criteria. The ORs for ED intervention for isolated motor vehicle collision (0.2; 95% CI, 0.1\u20130.7), isolated all-terrain vehicle rollover (0.4; 95% CI, 0.1\u20131.7), and suspected spinal cord injury (0.5; 95% CI, 0.1\u20133.7) were significantly lower than 1.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Highest-level activation criteria correlate with high utilization of ED resources and interventions. Lower level activation criteria and trauma service consult criteria are not highly correlated with need for ED interventions. Downgrading isolated motor vehicle collision and all-terrain vehicle rollovers and suspected spinal cord injury to lower level activations could decrease the overtriage rate, and adding age-specific bradycardia as a physiologic criterion could improve our undertriage rate.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1097\/pec.0000000000001509","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,5,15]],"date-time":"2018-05-15T19:40:15Z","timestamp":1526413215000},"page":"369-375","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Correlation of Level of Trauma Activation With Emergency Department Intervention"],"prefix":"10.1097","volume":"34","author":[{"given":"Michael C.","family":"Cooper","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Geetanjali","family":"Srivastava","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"276","reference":[{"key":"bib2-20230930","first-page":"879","article-title":"American Medical Association Commission on Emergency Medical Services: pediatric emergencies. 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