This paper develops a method for representing prognosis data and determining victim survival rate as a function of victim category, time, and treatment. Such a determination allows the evaluation of a community's emergency care system using the criterion of patient survival rather than some secondary evaluation criterion used in the absence of prognosis data. Typical prognosis curves are developed that express the probability of death from a specific illness or injury as a function of time and care received. Finally, examples are provided that show the probabilistic relation of mortality to time under varying assumptions of treatment and victim category.

Journal Article THE CERVICAL SPINE AN ANATOMICO-PATHOLOGICAL STUDY OF 70 SPECIMENS (USING A SPECIAL TECHNIQUE) WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE PROBLEM OF CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS Get access ERIC E. PAYNE, ERIC E. PAYNE Department of Pathology, Welsh National School of Medicine and the Department of Neurology, United Cardiff Hospitals Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar JOHN D. SPILLANE JOHN D. SPILLANE Department of Pathology, Welsh National School of Medicine and the Department of Neurology, United Cardiff Hospitals Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Brain, Volume 80, Issue 4, December 1957, Pages 571–596, https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/80.4.571 Published: 01 December 1957