Are all trauma centers created equally? A statewide analysis

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 701-708

  Cudnik, Michael T ^a   Sayre, Michael R ^a   Hiestand, Brian ^a   Steinberg, Steven M ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency medical services; Mortality; Outcome assessment (health care); Trauma centers; Wounds and injuries

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY PATIENT; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; REHABILITATION CENTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OHIO; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT DISCHARGE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 77955890411     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00786.x     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. MacKenzie EJ, Rivara FP, Jurkovich GJ, et al. A national evaluation of the effect of trauma-center care on mortality. N Engl J Med. 2006;354:366-78.
2. MacKenzie EJ, Rivara FP, Jurkovich GJ, et al. The impact of trauma-center care on functional outcomes following major lower-limb trauma. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2008;90:101-9.
3. Demetriades D, Martin M, Salim A, Rhee P, Brown C, Chan L. The effect of trauma center designation and trauma volume on outcome in specific severe injuries. Ann Surg. 2005;242:512-7.
4. Demetriades D, Martin M, Salim A, et al. Relationship between American College of Surgeons trauma center designation and mortality in patients with severe trauma (injury severity score > 15). J Am Coll Surg. 2006;202:212-5.
5. Nirula R, Brasel K. Do trauma centers improve functional outcomes: a national trauma databank analysis? J Trauma. 2006;61:268-71.
6. Committee on Trauma. Resources for Optimal Care of the Injured Patient. Chicago, IL: American College of Surgeons, 2006.
7. Bradley EH, Herrin J, Elbel B, et al. Hospital quality for acute myocardial infarction: correlation among process measures and relationship with short-term mortality. JAMA. 2006;296:72-8.
8. Mehta RH, Liang L, Karve AM, et al. Association of patient case-mix adjustment, hospital process performance rankings, and eligibility for financial incentives. JAMA. 2008;300:1897-903.
9. Green SM. Trauma surgery: discipline in crisis. Ann Emerg Med. 2009;53:198-207.
10. Spain DA, Miller FB. Education and training of the future trauma surgeon in acute care surgery: trauma, critical care, and emergency surgery. Am J Surg. 2005;190:212-7.
11. Spaite DW, Stiell IG, Bobrow BJ, et al. Effect of transport interval on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival in the OPALS study: implications for triaging patients to specialized cardiac arrest centers. Ann Emerg Med. 2009;54:248-55.
12. Spaite DW, Bobrow BJ, Vadeboncoeur TF, et al. The impact of prehospital transport interval on survival in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: implications for regionalization of post-resuscitation care. Resuscitation. 2008;79:61-6.
13. Davis DP, Fisher R, Aguilar S, et al. The feasibility of a regional cardiac arrest receiving system. Resuscitation. 2007;74:44-51.
14. Cudnik MT, Newgard CD, Sayre MR, Steinberg S. Level I versus Level II trauma centers: an outcomebased assessment. J Trauma. 2009;66:1321-6.
15. Magid DJ, Wang Y, Herrin J, et al. Relationship between time of day, day of week, timeliness of reperfusion, and in-hospital mortality for patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. JAMA. 2005;294:803-12.
16. Jneid H, Fonarow GC, Cannon CP, et al. Impact of time of presentation on the care and outcomes of acute myocardial infarction. Circulation. 2008;117:2502-9.
17. Schafer JL. Multiple imputation: a primer. Stat Methods Med Res. 1999;8:3-15.
18. Schafer JL, Graham JW. Missing data: our view of the state of the art. Psychol Methods. 2002;7:147-77.
19. Haukoos JS, Newgard CD. Advanced statistics: missing data in clinical research-part 1: an introduction and conceptual framework. Acad Emerg Med. 2007;14:662-8.
20. Newgard CD, Haukoos JS. Advanced statistics: missing data in clinical research-part 2: multiple imputation. Acad Emerg Med. 2007;14:669-78.
21. Newgard CD. The validity of using multiple imputation for missing out-of-hospital data in a state trauma registry. Acad Emerg Med. 2006;13:314-24.
22. Newgard CD, McConnell KJ, Hedges JR. Variability of trauma transfer practices among non-tertiary care hospital emergency departments. Acad Emerg Med. 2006;13:746-54.
23. Shafi S, Stewart RM, Nathens AB, Friese RS, Frankel H, Gentilello LM. Significant variations in mortality occur at similarly designated trauma centers. Arch Surg. 2009;144:64-8.
24. Majumdar SR, Roe MT, Peterson ED, Chen AY, Gibler WB, Armstrong PW. Better outcomes for patients treated at hospitals that participate in clinical trials. Arch Intern Med. 2008;168:657-62.
25. Rutledge R, Osler T. The ICD-9-based illness severity score: a new model that outperforms both DRG and APR-DRG as predictors of survival and resource utilization. J Trauma. 1998;45:791-9.
26. Rutledge R, Osler T, Kromhout-Schiro S. Illness severity adjustment for outcomes analysis: validation of the ICISS methodology in all 821, 455 patients hospitalized in North Carolina in 1996. Surgery. 1998;124:187-94.
27. Meredith JW, Kilgo PD, Osler T. A fresh set of survival risk ratios derived from incidents in the National Trauma Data Bank from which the ICISS may be calculated. J Trauma. 2003;55:924-32.
28. Meredith JW, Kilgo PD, Osler TM. Independently derived survival risk ratios yield better estimates of survival than traditional survival risk ratios when using the ICISS. J Trauma. 2003;55:933-8.
29. Shafi S, Friese R, Gentilello LM. Moving beyond personnel and process: a case for incorporating outcome measures in the trauma center designation process. Arch Surg. 2008;143:115-9.
30. Mann NC, Guice K, Cassidy L, Wright D, Koury J. Are statewide trauma registries comparable? Reaching for a national trauma dataset. Acad Emerg Med. 2006;13:946-53.
31. Hlaing T, Hollister L, Aaland M. Trauma registry data validation: essential for quality trauma care. J Trauma. 2006;61:1400-7.
32. Donabedian A. Explorations in Quality Assessment and Monitoring: The Definition of Quality and Approaches to Its Assessment. Ann Arbor, MI: Health Administration Press; 1980.
33. Donabedian A. The quality of care. How can it be assessed? JAMA. 1988;260:1743-8.
34. Zinn JS, Mor V. Organizational structure and the delivery of primary care to older Americans. Health Serv Res. 1998;33:354-80.
35. Cornwell EE III, Chang DC, Phillips J, Campbell KA. Enhanced trauma program commitment at a Level I trauma center: effect on the process and outcome of care. Arch Surg. 2003;138:838-43.
36. Demetriades D, Chan L, Velmanos GV, et al. TRISS methodology: an inappropriate tool for comparing outcomes between trauma centers. J Am Coll Surg. 2001;193:250-4.
37. Demetriades D, Chan LS, Velmahos G, et al. TRISS methodology in trauma: the need for alternatives. Br J Surg. 1998;85:379-84.
38. Moore L, Lavoie A, Abdous B, et al. Unification of the revised trauma score. J Trauma. 2006;61:718-22.
39. Lavoie A, Moore L, LeSage N, Liberman M, Sampalis JS. The New Injury Severity Score: a more accurate predictor of in-hospital mortality than the Injury Severity Score. J Trauma. 2004;56:1312-20.
40. Wong SS, Leung GK. Injury Severity Score (ISS) vs. ICD-derived Injury Severity Score (ICISS) in a patient population treated in a designated Hong Kong trauma centre. Mcgill J Med. 2008;11:9-13.