Relationship of trauma patient volume to outcome experience: Can a relationship be defined?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 827-831

  Tepas III, J J ^a   Patel, Jateen C ^a   DiScala, Carla ^b   Wears, Robert L ^a   Veldenz, Henry C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Patient volume; Risk adjustment; Trauma outcome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031750801     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-199805000-00014     Document Type: Article

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