Ranking of trauma center performance: The bare essentials

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 628-632

  Nathens, Avery B ^a,c   Xiong, Wei ^a   Shafi, Shahid ^b  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Performance; Quality; Risk adjustment

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE COURSE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; JOB PERFORMANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; CLASSIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ADJUSTMENT; RISK FACTORS; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 67650314175     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181837994     Document Type: Article

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