Impact of between-hospital volume and within-hospital volume on mortality and readmission rates for trauma patients in California

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1477-1483

  Marcin, James P ^a,b   Romano, Patrick S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Quality of care; Seventy of illness; Trauma; Volume; Volume outcome

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CALIFORNIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 3142776136     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000127781.08985.03     Document Type: Article

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