A target to achieve zero preventable trauma deaths through quality improvement

Authors

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, BostonFollow

Document Type

Article

Department

General Surgery

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.

Comments

This work was published before the author joined Aga Khan University

Publication (Name of Journal)

JAMA Surgery

Recommended Citation

Hashmi, Z. G., Haut, E. R., Efron, D. T., Salim, A., Cornwell, E. E., Haider, A. H. (2018). A target to achieve zero preventable trauma deaths through quality improvement. JAMA Surgery, 153(7), 686-689.
Available at: https://ecommons.aku.edu/pakistan_fhs_mc_surg_gen/401