Abstract
Abstract
Introduction
Quality in medical care must be measured in order to be improved. Trauma management is part of health care, and by definition, it must be checked constantly. The only way to measure quality and outcomes is to systematically accrue data and analyze them.
Material and methods
A systematic revision of the literature about quality indicators in trauma associated to an international consensus conference
Results
An internationally approved base core set of 82 trauma quality indicators was obtained: Indicators were divided into 6 fields: prevention, structure, process, outcome, post-traumatic management, and society integrational effects.
Conclusion
Present trauma quality indicator core set represents the result of an international effort aiming to provide a useful tool in quality evaluation and improvement. Further improvement may only be possible through international trauma registry development. This will allow for huge international data accrual permitting to evaluate results and compare outcomes.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Emergency Medicine,Surgery
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