The effect of trauma program registry on reported mortality rates

Journal of Trauma

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1122-1127

  Lucas, Charles E ^a   Buechter, Kennan J ^a   Coscia, Robert L ^a   Hurst, James M ^a   Lane, Vivian ^a   Meredith, J Wayne ^a   Middleton, John D ^a   Mitchell, Frank L ^a   Rinker, Charles F ^a   Tuggle, David ^a   Vlahos, Angie ^a   Wilberger, Jack ^a   Yu, Pingyang ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REGISTER; SCORING SYSTEM; TRAUMATOLOGY;

CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; REGISTRIES; TRAUMA CENTERS; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0035678789     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-200112000-00018     Document Type: Article

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