Patterns of errors contributing to trauma mortality: lessons learned from 2,594 deaths.

Russell L. Gruen; Gregory J. Jurkovich; Lisa K. McIntyre; Hugh M Foy; Ronald V Maier

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Patterns of errors contributing to trauma mortality: lessons learned from 2,594 deaths.

March 3, 2011

Gruen RL, Jurkovich GJ, McIntyre LK, et al. Transactions of the .. Meeting of the American Surgical Association. 2006;124.

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The researchers audited 9 years of records related to inpatient trauma deaths and found identifiable error patterns that can be used to target error interventions.

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