Complication rates as a trauma care performance indicator: a systematic review

Critical Care

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Moore, Lynne ^a,b   Stelfox, Henry T ^b   Turgeon, Alexis F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CINAHL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; DECUBITUS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; EMBASE; EMERGENCY CARE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDLINE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEPSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRAUMATOLOGY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84867433670     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc11680     Document Type: Article

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