Excess mortality, length of stay, and costs associated with serious hemorrhage among trauma patients: Findings from the National Trauma Data Bank®

American Surgeon

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1269-1274

  Boulanger, Luke ^a   Joshi, Ashish V ^b   Tortella, Bartholomew J ^b,c   Menzin, Joseph ^a   Caloyeras, John P ^a   Russell, Mason W ^a  

^a Boston Health Economics Inc   (United States)

^b NOVO NORDISK INC   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLUNT TRAUMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PREVALENCE; REGISTER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; TRAUMA CENTERS; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 38849128351     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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