Quality Indicators Targeting Low-Value Clinical Practices in Trauma Care.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The use of quality indicators has been shown to improve injury care processes and outcomes. However, trauma quality indicators proposed to date exclusively target the underuse of recommended practices. Initiatives such as Choosing Wisely publish lists of practices to be questioned, but few apply to trauma care, and most have not successfully been translated to quality indicators.

Objective

To develop a set of evidence and patient-informed, consensus-based quality indicators targeting reductions in low-value clinical practices in acute, in-hospital trauma care.

Design, setting, and participants

This 2-round Research and Development/University of California at Los Angeles (RAND/UCLA) consensus study, conducted from April 20 to June 9, 2021, comprised an onlin

SUBMITTER: Moore L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9047751 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature