Open AccessTrauma Center Maturation
Author(s) -
Andrew B. Peitzman,
Anita P. Courcoulas,
Christine Stinson,
Anthony O. Udekwu,
Timothy R. Billiar,
Brian G. Harbrecht
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
annals of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.153
H-Index - 309
eISSN - 1528-1140
pISSN - 0003-4932
DOI - 10.1097/00000658-199907000-00013
Subject(s) - medicine , trauma center , craniotomy , laparotomy , orthopedic surgery , incidence (geometry) , surgery , blunt trauma , injury severity score , mortality rate , pediatric trauma , anesthesia , emergency medicine , poison control , retrospective cohort study , injury prevention , physics , optics
The regional trauma system with the trauma center as its center is a model for health care networks. However, trauma center maturation has not been defined in the literature. The authors' hypothesis was that maturation of the trauma center would affect quantitatively both process and patient outcome.