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Table 1 Description of included studies

From: Complication rates as a trauma care performance indicator: a systematic review

Author, year (reference)

Setting

Study design

Period

Patients (n)

Centers (n)

Age (years)

Mechanism (% blunt)

Gender (% male)

ISS

Ang and colleagues, 2009 [27]

NSCOT, USA

Prospective

2001 to 2002

5,043

69

29% ≥ 65

88

62

74% ≥ 16

Calderale and colleagues, 2008 [28]

Level I TC, Italy/Romania

Retrospective

2002

182

2

Mean = 43

74% MVC

80

Mean = 29

Chang and colleagues, 2008 [29]

NIS, USA

Retrospective

2000 to 2004

1,350,229

NA

Mean = 60

NR

48

Median = 8

Claridge and colleagues, 2001 [30]

Level I TC, USA

Retrospective

1994 to 1999

917

1

Mean = 41

88

67

Mean = 14

Cohen and colleagues, 1999 [31]

Level I TC, USA

Retrospective

1995 to 1997

1,025

1

Mean = 43

75

66

Mean = 9

Curtis and colleagues, 2002 [32]

TC, Australia

Retrospective

2000 to 2001

475

1

NR

NR

NR

NR

Davis and colleagues, 2008 [33]

Level I TC, USA

Retrospective

2005 to 2006

1,058

1

NR

85

NR

Mean = 13

DiRusso and colleagues, 2001 [34]

Level I TC, USA

Retrospective

1994 and 1998

2,774

1

Mean = 36

94

57

Mean = 11

Glance and colleagues, 2011 [35]

NTDB, USA

Retrospective

2007

54,713

42

Median = 37

91

67

NR

Haas and colleagues, 2011 [36]

NTDB, USA

Retrospective

2007

76,048

115

Mean = 45

90

69

49% > 15

Haut and colleagues, 2007 [37]

Level I TC, USA

Retrospective

1995 to 2005

7,559

1

Mean = 33

52

80

Mean = 10

Highstead and colleagues, 2009 [38]

Level I TC, USA

Retrospective

1998 to 2007

7,593

1

Mean = 36

78

76

Mean = 8

Hinsdale and colleagues, 1998 [39]

TC, USA

Retrospective

1993 to 1996

6,992

1

NR

NR

NA

NR

Hoyt and colleagues, 2003 [26]

Level I TC, USA

Retrospective

1990 to 2001

13,382

1

NR

71

78

Mean = 13

Huseynova and colleagues, 2009 [40]

NTDB, USA

Retrospective

2006

22,421

30

Mean = 45

90

68

Mean = 17

Jacobs and colleagues, 2009 [41]

Level I TC, USA

Retrospective

2006

1,959

1

Mean = 37

82

72

Mean = 15

Pierce and colleagues, 2008 [42]

NTDB, USA

Retrospective

2001 to 2005

578,252

147

NR

NR

NA

NR

Piontek and colleagues, 2003 [43]

Level I TC, USA

Retrospective

1993 to 2001

7,811

1

NR

97

NR

NR

Podnos and colleagues, 1998 [44]

Level I TC, USA

Retrospective

1996

1,427

1

NR

NR

73

NR

Roettger and colleagues, 2005 [45]

Level I TC, USA

Retrospective

2001 to 2004

1,391

1

Mean = 37

87

66

Mean = 11

Rotondo and colleagues, 2009 [46]

Level I TC, USA

Retrospective

1994 to 2005

18,644

1

Mean = 41

88

63

Mean = 11

Schuerer and colleagues, 2005 [47]

Level I TC, USA

Prospective

2002 to 2003

2,531

1

Mean = 39

NR

NR

Median = 9

  1. ISS, Injury Severity Score; MVC, motor vehicle collision; NA, not applicable; NIS, National Inpatient Survey; NR, not reported; NSCOT, National Study on Costs and Outcomes of Trauma; NTDB, National Trauma Data Bank; TC, trauma center;