Long-term survival of adult trauma patients.
Summary of "Long-term survival of adult trauma patients."
Inpatient trauma case fatality rates may provide an incomplete assessment for overall trauma care effectiveness. To date, there have been few large studies evaluating long-term mortality in trauma patients and identifying predictors that increase risk for death following hospital discharge.
Affiliation
Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, and Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
Journal Details
This article was published in the following journal.
Name: JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association
ISSN: 1538-3598
Pages: 1001-7
Links
- PubMed Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21386078
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.259
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