Variation in hospital complication rates and failure-to-rescue for trauma patients

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 253, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 811-816

  Glance, Laurent G ^a,e   Dick, Andrew W ^b   Meredith, J Wayne ^c   Mukamel, Dana B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLUNT TRAUMA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY PATIENT; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FAILURE TO RESCUE; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY; INJURY SEVERITY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; STAB WOUND; STROKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT FAILURE; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BAYES THEOREM; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953209004     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318211d872     Document Type: Article

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