A National Evaluation of the Effect of Trauma-Center Care on Mortality
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- 26 January 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 354 (4) , 366-378
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsa052049
Abstract
Hospitals have difficulty justifying the expense of maintaining trauma centers without strong evidence of their effectiveness. To address this gap, we examined differences in mortality between level 1 trauma centers and hospitals without a trauma center (non–trauma centers).Keywords
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