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S: http://www.pitt.edu/~epi2670/severity/severity.pdf (last access: 28 February 2013); https://ubmm.med.buffalo.edu/uploads/DH22/Geriatric%20Falls_Injury%20Severity.pdf (last access: 5 August 2015).

N: Paramedics dispatched to the scene of the injured or ill person by the ambulance services make an initial assessment of severity. However, even these skilled staff struggle to accurately categorise injury severity. A number of papers have addressed this issue. Mulholland et al. (2008) showed that while paramedics can accurately identify major trauma status, the discrimination of injury severity at the individual body regions was not very good. A systematic review of the literature on the accuracy of paramedic triage also revealed considerable difficulties (Mulholland, 22 Gabbe and Cameron 2005).

S: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110131201606/http:/www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roadsafety/research/rsrr/theme5/rs-rep119/pdf/report.pdf (last access: 5 August 2015)

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CR: health