Predicting Discharge Disposition in Trauma Patients: Development, Validation, and Generalization of a Model Using the National Trauma Data Bank.

CONCLUSION: We developed a score based on a large national trauma database that has acceptable performance on local institutions to predict patient discharge disposition at the time of admission. TDS can aid in early discharge preparation for likely-to-be non-home patients and may improve hospital efficiency.
PMID: 32915055 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The American Surgeon - September 10, 2020 Category: Surgery Authors: Graham M, Parikh P, Hirpara S, McCarthy MC, Haut ER, Parikh PP Tags: Am Surg Source Type: research