BMJ : British medical journal
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Comparative Study
Improving the care of patients with major trauma in the accident and emergency department.
To determine whether improvement in the care of victims of major trauma could be made by using the revised trauma score as a triage tool to help junior accident and emergency doctors rapidly identify seriously injured patients and thereby call a senior accident and emergency specialist to supervise their resuscitation. ⋯ Care of patients in accident and emergency departments can be improved considerably at no additional expense by introducing two simple measures.
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To develop and report the results of a system of audit of computer records in general practice. ⋯ Centrally programmed audit of computerised records is a feasible method of providing data on a regular basis for epidemiological purposes and for performance review. The fact that practices with smaller list sizes had higher levels of recorded preventive care suggests that the trend towards larger lists promoted by the new contract might militate against the intended effect of better preventive care.