Hips can lie: Impact of excluding isolated hip fractures on external benchmarking of trauma center performance

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1037-1041

  Gomez, David ^a   Haas, Barbara ^a   Hemmila, Mark ^b   Pasquale, Michael ^c   Goble, Sandra ^d   Neal, Melanie ^d   Mann, N Clay ^e   Meredith, Wayne ^f   Cryer, Henry G ^g   Shafi, Shahid ^h   Nathens, Avery B ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^f WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Covariate imbalance.; Isolated hip fractures; Quality improvement; Risk adjustment; Trauma center performance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE REGISTRY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; ISOLATED HIP FRACTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RATING SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BENCHMARKING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA CENTERS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78549262657     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181f65387     Document Type: Article

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