Lead-Time Bias and Interhospital Transfer after Injury: Trauma Center Admission Vital Signs Underpredict Mortality in Transferred Trauma Patients

BACKGROUND: Admission physiology predicts mortality after injury but may be improved by resuscitation prior to transfer. This phenomenon, which has been termed lead-time bias, may lead to underprediction of mortality in transferred patients and inaccurate benchmarking in centers receiving large numb...

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Published in:J Am Coll Surg
Main Authors: Holena, Daniel N, Wiebe, Douglas J, Carr, Brendan G, Hsu, Jesse Y, Sperry, Jason L, Peitzman, Andrew B, Reilly, Patrick M
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5328799/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27993698
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2016.11.016
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