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Comparing regression-adjusted mortality to standardized mortality ratios for trauma center profiling

open access: yesJournal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock, 2012
Background: Trauma center profiling is commonly performed with Standardized Mortality Ratios (SMRs). However, comparison of SMRs across trauma centers with different case mix can induce confounding leading to biased trauma center ranks.
Lynne Moore   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Location of Violent Crime Relative to Trauma Resources in Detroit: Implications for Community Interventions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Introduction: Detroit, Michigan, is among the leading United States cities for per-capita homicide and violent crime. Hospital- and community-based intervention programs could decrease the rate of violent-crime related injury but require a detailed ...
Abir, Mahshid   +4 more
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Panamerican Trauma Society: The first three decades [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Panamerican Trauma Society was born 30 years ago with the mission of improving trauma care in the Americas by exchange of ideas and concepts and expanding knowledge of trauma and acute illness.
Aboutanos, Michel, Ivatury, Rao R.
core   +2 more sources

Collecting data on organizational structures of trauma centers: the CAFE web service

open access: yesTrauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, 2020
Background During the past several decades, the American College of Surgeons has led efforts to standardize trauma care through their trauma center verification process and Trauma Quality Improvement Program.
Robert J Winchell   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting in Pittsburgh: Preparedness, Prehospital Care, and Lessons Learned [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
On Saturday, October 27, 2018, a man with anti-Semitic motivations entered Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; he had an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and three handguns, opening fire upon worshippers. Eventually
Murray, Keith   +4 more
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Variability in pelvic packing practices for hemodynamically unstable pelvic fractures at US level 1 trauma centers

open access: yesPatient Safety in Surgery, 2019
Background Mortality from hemodynamically unstable pelvic fractures remains high. Guidelines offer varying care approaches including the use of pelvic packing (PP), which was recently adopted for potential control of bleeding for this condition. However,
Benoit Blondeau   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Innovations in Trauma-Informed Care: Building the Nation’s First System of Trauma-Informed Recreation Centers

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences, 2023
Exposure to adversity and traumatic events affects well-being across important domains of functioning, including mental, physical, social, emotional, spiritual, and neurobiological.
Megan R. Holmes   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

National trauma system establishment based on implementation of regional trauma centers improves outcomes of trauma care: A follow-up observational study in South Korea

open access: yesPLOS Global Public Health, 2022
Although South Korea is a high-income country, its trauma system is comparable to low- and middle-income countries with high preventable trauma death rates of more than 30%.
Kyoungwon Jung   +13 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Reformation of system of emergency medical help for injured persons on early hospital stage

open access: yesКлінічна хірургія, 2019
Objective. To determine the key trend of reformation of the system of the emergent medical help to the injured persons on early hospital stage. Маterials and methods.
G. G. Roshchin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Institutional differences in management of compartment syndrome at academic and community-based trauma centers: A survey of Orthopaedic Trauma Association (OTA) members

open access: yesOTA International, 2020
. Objectives:. The purpose of this study was to compare management of compartment syndrome at academic and community trauma centers and to identify any institutional variables that influence the number of adverse events reported to the hospital's peer ...
Matthew Klima, DO
doaj   +1 more source

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