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Trauma quality indicators: internationally approved core factors for trauma management quality evaluation.
- Source :
- World Journal of Emergency Surgery; 2/23/2021, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p1-10, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Introduction: Quality in medical care must be measured in order to be improved. Trauma management is part of health care, and by definition, it must be checked constantly. The only way to measure quality and outcomes is to systematically accrue data and analyze them. Material and methods: A systematic revision of the literature about quality indicators in trauma associated to an international consensus conference Results: An internationally approved base core set of 82 trauma quality indicators was obtained: Indicators were divided into 6 fields: prevention, structure, process, outcome, post-traumatic management, and society integrational effects. Conclusion: Present trauma quality indicator core set represents the result of an international effort aiming to provide a useful tool in quality evaluation and improvement. Further improvement may only be possible through international trauma registry development. This will allow for huge international data accrual permitting to evaluate results and compare outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- WOUND care
CONSENSUS (Social sciences)
CINAHL database
KEY performance indicators (Management)
MEDICAL information storage & retrieval systems
MEDICAL databases
INFORMATION storage & retrieval systems
SYSTEMATIC reviews
WORLD health
HEALTH outcome assessment
QUALITY assurance
CLINICAL medicine
MEDLINE
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17497922
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- World Journal of Emergency Surgery
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 148903862
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s13017-021-00350-7