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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Main Authors: Toshikazu Abe, Akira Komori, Atsushi Shiraishi, Takehiro Sugiyama, Hiroki Iriyama, Takako Kainoh, Daizoh Saitoh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-05-01
Series:Critical Care
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13054-020-02951-1