A multidisciplinary quality management system for the early treatment of severely injured patients: Implementation and results in two trauma centers

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1395-1404

  Ruchholtz, Steffen ^a   Waydhas, Christian ^a   Lewan, Ulrike ^a   Piepenbrink, Karl ^a   Stolke, Dietmar ^a   Debatin, Jörg ^a   Schweiberer, Leonhard ^b   Nast Kolb, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Early clinical therapy; Emergency operation; Multiple injuries; Penetrating trauma; Quality management; Severe blunt trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

GERMANY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MANAGEMENT QUALITY CIRCLES; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT CARE TEAM; TIME FACTORS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 0036390207     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-002-1446-8     Document Type: Article

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