Moving beyond personnel and process: A case for incorporating outcome measures in the trauma center designation process

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 115-119

  Shafi, Shahid ^a   Friese, Randall ^a   Gentilello, Larry M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; LIMB INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINE INJURY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FIRST AID; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROBABILITY; REGISTRIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 39549110206     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2007.29     Document Type: Article

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