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Trauma Centres (TC) are expected to have a lower mortality – after controlling for injury-severity – than non-designated hospitals in order to justify their funding. This benefit has been demonstrated in the USA not long ago, while the evidence from other settings is still limited. We evaluated the mortality benefit of TC care in an Italian setting, where the first Trauma System with designated TCs...
TMPM-ICD9 is the latest injury-severity measure based on empirical estimation from ICD-9-CM codes. It is candidate to replace expert-based AIS measures worldwide because of easier accessibility and better predictive performances. In Italy and other countries administrative ICD coding is generally less complete than dedicated AIS coding. We attempted to ascertain how this affects TMPM performances...
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