Time intervals in the treatment of fractured femurs as indicators of the quality of trauma systems;Intervalles de temps dans le traitement des fémurs fracturés comme indicateurs de la qualité des systèmes de prise en charge des traumatismes

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 42-50

  Matityahu, Amir ^a   Elliott, Iain ^b   Marmor, Meir ^a   Caldwell, Amber ^a   Coughlin, Richard ^b   Gosselin, Richard A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE IMPLANT; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FUNDING; GENDER; GOVERNMENT; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL FINANCE; HUMAN; INCOME; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; TIME TO TREATMENT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INJURY SCALE; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; TRACTION THERAPY; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TRACTION; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891548601     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.13.120436     Document Type: Article

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