Reduced mortality at a community hospital trauma center: The impact of changing trauma level designation from II to I

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 22-27

  Scarborough, Kristin ^a   Slone, Denetta Sue ^a   Uribe, Phyllis ^a   Craun, Michael ^a   Bar Or, Raphael ^a   Bar Or, David ^a  

^a SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PELVIS INJURY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORAX INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COLORADO; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT TRANSFER; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRIAGE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 38549161763     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2007.2-b     Document Type: Article

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