Trauma complications and in-hospital mortality: failure-to-rescue
Abstract Background Reducing medical errors and minimizing complications have become the focus of quality improvement in medicine. Failure-to-rescue (FTR) is defined as death after a surgical complication, which is an institution-level surgical safety and quality metric that is an important variable...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2020-05-01
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Series: | Critical Care |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13054-020-02951-1 |