... documentation. Documentation is in itself a quality criterion for appropriate care and is crucialto trauma research. 1. BackgroundIn trauma research, there are few studies of documenta-tion ... of EMSdocumentation of key logistic, physiologic, and mechan-istic variables in MVAs from a trauma research perspec-tive. To evaluate the documentation of patientconsciousness, respiration ... to personal safety.Still, all research on pre-hospital trauma care, the use of EMS, and mechanism of injury (MOI) in MVAs dependsheavily on this documentation. A potential consequence of our...