• The American surgeon · Apr 1988

    The trauma score: a simple method to evaluate quality of care.

    • M L Hawkins, R C Treat, and A R Mansberger.
    • Department of Surgery, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta 30912.
    • Am Surg. 1988 Apr 1; 54 (4): 204-6.

    AbstractIn recent years, trauma care delivery has come under close scrutiny from within and outside the medical profession. With the development and designation of trauma centers, two problems have become evident. First is a reliable, simple means of triaging patients to the appropriate facility. The second problem is evaluation of the quality of care provided. The assessment of results is difficult due to the large number of variables, such as mechanisms of injury, anatomic sites of injury, and comorbidity found in these patients and has led to the use of complex statistical analysis. The trauma score, originally developed as a triage tool, has also proven to be a reliable, simple means of assessing the quality of care. The expected survival for each trauma score value has been established and each hospital's or surgeon's results can, therefore, be evaluated against that standard. A deviation from the expected survival curve may or may not be clinically significant as determined by careful review of those patients. From July 1, 1985 through June 30, 1986, 495 patients were admitted to the trauma service at the Medical College of Georgia. All patients were given a trauma score on arrival to the emergency department. The trauma score can be used as a quality assurance tool by any physician or hospital providing trauma services as will be demonstrated by analyzing our data.

      Pubmed     Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…