Adam Rolley\u00a0<\/h2>\n<\/div>PhD Student, Queensland University of Technology<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
![\"Adam](\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" "\\"Adam")
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>Supervisor: <\/strong>\u00a0Prof. \u00a0Kirsten Vallmuur<\/p>\nCo-Supervisors: <\/strong>Prof. Steven McPhail, Prof. Emma Bosley, Prof. Kerrianne Watt\u00a0<\/p>\nThesis title: <\/strong>\u00a0Pre-hospital trauma triage: Epidemiology, accuracy and economics\u00a0<\/p>\nThesis Summary<\/strong>: The burden of disease associated with major trauma is significant, and Australia\u2019s geographic size and population dispersion challenge the trauma system. Most major trauma patients in Australia are transported by ambulance, and there is a mortality benefit if conveyed directly to a specialised trauma facility. Given this, paramedics\u2019 ability to triage this cohort accurately is fundamental. However, evidence suggests trauma triage criteria often fail to achieve the expected accuracy, with paediatrics and older people at a significantly higher risk of undertriage. This research aims to explore definitions of severe trauma and its epidemiology, spatial and temporal trends, understand the performance of the Queensland pre-hospital trauma triage criteria, consider updates to the current approach and explore the system-level economic impacts of the current and alternative trauma triage criteria.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PhD Student, Queensland University of Technology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1600,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[4],"portfolio_skills":[],"portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-1599","avada_portfolio","type-avada_portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-phd-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/avada_portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3033,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/1599\/revisions\/3033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_skills","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_skills?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
PhD Student, Queensland University of Technology<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
![\"Adam](\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2023\/04\/rolley-adam.jpg\" "\\"Adam")
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>Supervisor: <\/strong>\u00a0Prof. \u00a0Kirsten Vallmuur<\/p>\n Co-Supervisors: <\/strong>Prof. Steven McPhail, Prof. Emma Bosley, Prof. Kerrianne Watt\u00a0<\/p>\n Thesis title: <\/strong>\u00a0Pre-hospital trauma triage: Epidemiology, accuracy and economics\u00a0<\/p>\n Thesis Summary<\/strong>: The burden of disease associated with major trauma is significant, and Australia\u2019s geographic size and population dispersion challenge the trauma system. Most major trauma patients in Australia are transported by ambulance, and there is a mortality benefit if conveyed directly to a specialised trauma facility. Given this, paramedics\u2019 ability to triage this cohort accurately is fundamental. However, evidence suggests trauma triage criteria often fail to achieve the expected accuracy, with paediatrics and older people at a significantly higher risk of undertriage. This research aims to explore definitions of severe trauma and its epidemiology, spatial and temporal trends, understand the performance of the Queensland pre-hospital trauma triage criteria, consider updates to the current approach and explore the system-level economic impacts of the current and alternative trauma triage criteria.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PhD Student, Queensland University of Technology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1600,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[4],"portfolio_skills":[],"portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-1599","avada_portfolio","type-avada_portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-phd-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/avada_portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3033,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/1599\/revisions\/3033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_skills","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_skills?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/jamieson-trauma-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}