Derivation and Validation of a Quality Indicator to Benchmark In-Hospital Complications Among Injury Admissions | Zendy

Lynne Moore | Zendy; François Lauzier | Zendy; Henry T. Stelfox | Zendy; John B. Kortbeek | Zendy; Richard Simons | Zendy; Simon Berthelot | Zendy; Julien Clément | Zendy; G Bourgeois | Zendy; Alexis F. Turgeon | Zendy

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Derivation and Validation of a Quality Indicator to Benchmark In-Hospital Complications Among Injury Admissions

Author(s) -

Lynne Moore,

François Lauzier,

Henry T. Stelfox,

John B. Kortbeek,

Richard Simons,

Simon Berthelot,

Julien Clément,

G Bourgeois,

Alexis F. Turgeon

Publication year - 2016

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.2015.5484

Subject(s) - medicine , emergency medicine , retrospective cohort study , metric (unit) , cohort , incidence (geometry) , trauma center , surgery , operations management , physics , optics , economics

The rate of complications among injury admissions has been estimated to be more than 3 times that observed for general admissions, and complications have been targeted as an important quality-of-care metric. Despite the negative effect of complications on resource use and patient mortality and morbidity, there is no standardized method to benchmark trauma centers in terms of in-hospital complications, to our knowledge.

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