traumar - Calculate Metrics for Trauma System Performance
Hospitals, hospital systems, and even trauma systems that
provide care to injured patients may not be aware of robust
metrics that can help gauge the efficacy of their programs in
saving the lives of injured patients. 'traumar' provides
robust functions driven by the academic literature to automate
the calculation of relevant metrics to individuals desiring to
measure the performance of their trauma center or even a trauma
system. 'traumar' also provides some helper functions for the
data analysis journey. Users can refer to the following
publications for descriptions of the methods used in 'traumar'.
TRISS methodology, including probability of survival, and the
W, M, and Z Scores - Flora (1978)
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PMID:3106646), Llullaku et al. (2009)
<doi:10.1186/1749-7922-4-2>, Singh et al. (2011)
<doi:10.4103/0974-2700.86626>, Baker et al. (1974,
PMID:4814394), and Champion et al. (1989)
<doi:10.1097/00005373-198905000-00017>. For the Relative
Mortality Metric, see Napoli et al. (2017)
<doi:10.1080/24725579.2017.1325948>, Schroeder et al. (2019)
<doi:10.1080/10903127.2018.1489021>, and Kassar et al. (2016)
<doi:10.1177/00031348221093563>.
