Traumatic injury in the United States: In-patient epidemiology 2000-2011.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Trauma is a leading cause of death and disability in the United States (US). This analysis describes trends and annual changes in in-hospital trauma morbidity and mortality; evaluates changes in age and gender specific outcomes, diagnoses, causes of injury, injury severity and surgical procedures performed; and examines the role of teaching hospitals and Level 1 trauma centres in the care of severely injured patients.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective descriptive and analytic epidemiologic study of an inpatient database representing 20,659,684 traumatic injury discharges from US hospitals between 2000 and 2011. The main outcomes and measures were survey-adjusted counts, proportions, means, standard errors, and 95% confidence intervals. We plotted time series of

SUBMITTER: DiMaggio C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5269564 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature