Weekend and night outcomes in a statewide trauma system

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 146, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 810-817

  Carr, Brendan G ^a   Reilly, Patrick M ^a   Schwab, C William ^a   Branas, Charles C ^a   Geiger, Juliet ^b   Wiebe, Douglas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Pennsylvania Trauma Syst Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRANIOTOMY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NIGHT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; PENNSYLVANIA; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 79954999045     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2011.60     Document Type: Article

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