Hospitals without appropriate expertise should not offer trauma care  

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Kmietowicz, Zosia

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: British Medical Journal (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 335 no. 7629 (Nov. 2007), page 1067.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: B16.K.2007.01 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Less than half of people who sustain serious injuries receive good care before they arrive in an emergency department, a new report says. And it says that such failings in care continue once the patients have arrived at hospital. A team approach is needed to deliver effective care for trauma patients in the same way that cancer services teams have worked across healthcare disciplines to improve outcomes, said Simon Carter, one of the report's authors. "We need to see significant improvements made now to pre-hospital and hospital trauma care in order to prevent the unnecessary death of young patients, with its tragic consequences for families, not to mention the economic cost to the nation," he added. The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) looked at 795 patients who had a severe injury between February and April 2006 and who were treated in hospitals in England, Wales, Northern . . .

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