Importance The use of quality indicators has been shown to improve injury care processes
and outcomes. However, trauma quality indicators proposed to date exclusively target the …

Importance Reducing low-value care has the potential to improve patient experiences and
outcomes and free up health care resources. Sixteen quality indicators were recently …

BACKGROUND Tests and treatments that are not supported by evidence and could expose
patients to unnecessary harm, referred to here as low-value clinical practices, consume up …

Objectives To systematically review the literature on quality indicators (QIs) for evaluating
trauma care, identify QIs, map their definitions, and examine the evidence base in support of …

BACKGROUND Accurate and reliable data are pivotal to credible risk-adjusted modeling
and hospital benchmarking. Evidence assessing the reliability and accuracy of data …

Importance The American College of Surgeons Trauma Quality Improvement Program (ACS
TQIP) provides feedback to hospitals on risk-adjusted outcomes. The Michigan Trauma …

Objective: To develop and evaluate evidence-informed quality indicators of adult injury care.
Background: Injury is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, but there is a lack of …

Background: The Trauma Quality Improvement Program (American College of Surgery (ACS-
TQIP)) uses the existing infrastructure of the Committee on Trauma programs and provides …

Objective: To appraise the quality of reporting on guideline, protocol, and algorithm
implementations in adult trauma settings according to the Revised Standards for Quality …

Introduction Trauma quality improvement (QI) programs have been shown to improve
outcomes and decrease cost. These are high priorities in low-and middle-income countries …