Pulmonary complications in trauma: Another bellwether for failure to rescue?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pulmonary complications are the most common adverse event after injury and second greatest cause of failure to rescue (death after pulmonary complications). It is not known whether readily accessible trauma center data can be used to stratify center-level performance for various complications. Performance variation between trauma centers would allow sharing of best practices among otherwise similar hospitals. We hypothesized that high-, average-, and low-performing centers for pulmonary complication and failure to rescue could be identified and that hospital factors associated with success and failure could be discovered.

Methods

Pennsylvania state trauma registry data (2007-2015) were abstracted for pulmonary complications. Burns and age <17 were excluded. Multiv

SUBMITTER: Scantling D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7855249 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature