Background: The establishment of trauma systems was anticipated to improve overall
survival for the severely injured patient. We systematically reviewed the published literature …

OBJECTIVE: The purposes of the study were to compare the survival associated with
treatment of seriously injured patients with pediatric trauma in Florida at designated trauma …

Background: This article analyzes the effectiveness of designated trauma centers (DTCs) in
Florida concerning reduction in the mortality risk of severely injured elderly trauma victims …

The organizational and operational characteristics of 140 private Florida hospitals with
sustained high profitability and sustained low profitability were compared using pretax …

Objective: To determine effectiveness of trauma center care in a mature trauma system by
comparing motor vehicle crash (MVC) death rates in counties with a trauma center (TC) to …

Objective To analyse the financial costs from sports injuries among inpatients and
emergency department (ED) patients aged 5–18 with a focus on Medicaid patients. Methods …

This article examines the determinants of exceptionally high and exceptionally low
profitability among hospitals. Using 1989 data from a sample of 169 acute care hospitals in …

BACKGROUND A regional trauma system must establish and monitor acceptable overtriage
and undertriage rates. Although diagnoses from discharge data sets can be used with …

BACKGROUND Despite decades of trauma system development, many severely injured
patients fail to reach a trauma center for definitive care. The purpose of this study was to …

Objective: Length of stay (LOS) and boarding in the emergency department (ED) for
psychiatric patients have been the subject of concern, given the problems with crowding and …