Preventable or potentially preventable mortality at a mature trauma center

Journal of Trauma

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1338-1347

  Teixeira, Pedro G R ^a   Inaba, Kenji ^a   Hadjizacharia, Pantelis ^a   Brown, Carlos ^a   Salim, Ali ^a   Rhee, Peter ^a   Browder, Timothy ^a   Noguchi, Thomas T ^a   Demetriades, Demetrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Errors in diagnosis; Injury; Medical errors; Missed injuries; Mortality; Outcome assessment; Quality assessment; Wounds and Injuries

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MORTALITY; REGISTER; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LOS ANGELES; MALE; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES; TIME FACTORS; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 38949171426     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31815078ae     Document Type: Article

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