[An analysis of hospital mortality of casualties with combined cerebro-cranial traumas in St. Petersburg and problems of the quality of medical care].
Clinico-statistical characterization of 661 subjects who died from combined cerebro-cranial traumas in hospitals of St. Petersburg in 2004 is presented with an analysis of the quality of medical care rendered to them. Most of those subjects had severe combined injuries with dominating or markedly seen signs of combined cerebro-cranial traumas. The main cause of death was most frequently a severe combined trauma of the body (52%) and different complications of trauma disease (36.3%). In the process of complex expert assessment of the quality of medical care each case was referred to one of three categories of outcomes: avoidable, conventionally avoidable and unavoidable. The groups of subjects with avoidable and conventionally avoidable outcomes (53.6%) are considered to be a substantial reserve for improvement of the results of treatment of combined cerebro-cranial traumas.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D017052:Hospital Mortality / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D015599:Trauma Severity Indices; D014505:Urban Population