Challenges to the standardization of trauma data collection in burn, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, and other trauma populations: a call for common data elements for acute and longitudinal trauma databases - Simko LC, Chen L, Amtmann D, Gibran N, Herndon D, Kowalske K, Miller AC, Bulger E, Friedman R, Wolfe A, Chung KK, Mosier M, Jeng J, Giacino J, Zafonte R, Kazis LE, Schneider JC, Ryan CM.

OBJECTIVE: Common data elements (CDEs) promote data sharing, standardization, and uniform data collection, which facilitate meta-analyses and comparisons of studies. Currently, there is no set of CDEs for all trauma populations, but their creation would al...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Burns, Electricity, Explosions, Fire, Scalds Source Type: news