Trauma program bolsters case for better equipment with benchmarking study.
Gregory Jurkovich, MD, FACS, head of trauma at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, contended that patients with severe head injuries did better when they had intercranial pressure monitors. But it is an expensive proposition that some might question. So it was nice to get support from national benchmarking data that the best trauma programs did just what his physicians did at Harborview.
D000007:Abdominal Injuries / Q000628:therapy*; D019985:Benchmarking; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000628:therapy*; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D019586:Intracranial Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation; D015397:Program Evaluation; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D014861:Washington; D014950:Wounds, Penetrating / Q000628:therapy*