Compliance With Evidence-Based Guidelines and Interhospital Variation in Mortality for Patients With Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Author(s) -
Aaron J. Dawes,
Greg D. Sacks,
H. Gill Cryer,
J. Peter Gruen,
Christy Preston,
Deidre Gorospe,
Marilyn Cohen,
David L. McArthur,
Marcia M. Russell,
Melinda MaggardGibbons,
Clifford Y. Ko
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
jama surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.757
H-Index - 176
eISSN - 2168-6262
pISSN - 2168-6254
DOI - 10.1001/jamasurg.2015.1678
Subject(s) - medicine , interquartile range , glasgow coma scale , traumatic brain injury , craniotomy , trauma center , injury severity score , intracranial pressure monitoring , emergency medicine , intracranial pressure , glasgow outcome scale , blunt trauma , abbreviated injury scale , head injury , poison control , injury prevention , retrospective cohort study , surgery , psychiatry
Compliance with evidence-based guidelines in traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been proposed as a marker of hospital quality. However, the association between hospital-level compliance rates and risk-adjusted clinical outcomes for patients with TBI remains poorly understood.
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