Variability in interhospital trauma data coding and scoring: A challenge to the accuracy of aggregated trauma registries

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 359-363

  Arabian, Sandra S ^a   Marcus, Michael ^b   Captain, Kevin ^c   Pomphrey, Michelle ^d   Breeze, Janis ^a   Wolfe, Jennefer ^b   Bugaev, Nikolay ^a   Rabinovici, Reuven ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Lee Memorial Hospital   (United States)

^c Halifax Health   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Data variability; NTDB; Trauma registry

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CERTIFICATION; CODING; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SCORING SYSTEM; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MULTICENTER STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL CODING; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84940875425     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0000000000000788     Document Type: Conference Paper

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