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A target to achieve zero preventable trauma deaths through quality improvement
JAMA Surgery
  • Zain G. Hashmi, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Baltimore
  • Elliott R Haut, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore
  • David T Efron, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore
  • Ali Salim, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
  • Edward E. Cornwell, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington
  • Adil H Haider, Harvard Medical School, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
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Publication Date
7-1-2018
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Abstract

This study uses the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Nationwide Emergency Department Sample to examine the number of preventable trauma deaths in US hospitals to provide a target for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine mandate of zero preventable deaths after injury.

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This work was published before the author joined Aga Khan University

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Zain G. Hashmi, Elliott R Haut, David T Efron, Ali Salim, et al.. "A target to achieve zero preventable trauma deaths through quality improvement" JAMA Surgery Vol. 153 Iss. 7 (2018) p. 686 - 689
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