Assessing quality of care in a trauma referral center: Benchmarking performance by TRISS-based statistics or by analysis of stratified ISS data?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 538-547

  Skaga, Nils O ^a   Eken, Torsten ^b   Steen, Petter A ^a  

^a ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b AKER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Direct standardization; Injury Severity Score; Multiple trauma; Quality of health care; Risk adjustment; RTS; Stratified analysis; Survival analysis; Trauma severity indices; TRISS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33645553356     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000205613.52586.d1     Document Type: Article

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