Are pre-hospital time and emergency department disposition time useful process indicators for trauma care in Italy?

Injury

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 305-311

  Di Bartolomeo, Stefano ^a   Valent, Francesca ^a   Rosolen, Valentina ^a   Sanson, Gianfranco ^b   Nardi, Giuseppe ^c   Cancellieri, Francesco ^d   Barbone, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b United Hospitals   (Italy)

^c SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d MAGGIORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Emergency medical services; Outcome assessment (health care); Process assessment (health care); Quality assurance (health care); Quality indicators (health care); Registries; Time factors; Trauma centers; Trauma severity indices; Wounds and injuries

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INJURY; ITALY; JOB PERFORMANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; TIME FACTORS; TRIAGE;

EID: 33847273040     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2006.10.005     Document Type: Article

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