Are Statewide Trauma Registries Comparable? Reaching for a National Trauma Dataset

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 946-953

  Mann, N Clay ^a   Guice, Karen ^a   Cassidy, Laura ^a   Wright, Dagan ^a   Koury, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

data collection; information systems; population; registries; trauma

Indexed keywords

ABRASION; ABUSE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; BLISTER; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BRAIN DISEASE; BURN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; CRUSH TRAUMA; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DROWNING; ELECTRIC INJURY; FALLING; FOREIGN BODY; FRACTURE; HUMAN; INJURY; INSECT BITE; INTOXICATION; JOINT DISLOCATION; LUNG BURN; MANAGER; NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SPINE INJURY; SPRAIN; THERMAL INJURY; UNITED STATES; WOUND;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; GUIDELINES; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; REGISTRIES; STATE GOVERNMENT; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33748630219     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.04.019     Document Type: Article

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