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Making your geriatric and palliative programs a strength: TQIP guideline implementation and the VRC perspective
2021
Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open
BackgroundOlder patients compose approximately 30% of trauma patients treated in the USA but make up nearly 50% of deaths from trauma. To help standardize and elevate care of these patients, the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Trauma Quality Improvement Program's best practice guidelines for geriatric trauma management was published in 2013 and that for palliative care was published in 2017. Here, we discuss how palliative care and geriatrics quality metrics can be tracked and used for
doi:10.1136/tsaco-2021-000677
pmid:34337156
pmcid:PMC8286789
fatcat:32kcvmrdjzdodn4gcz7qcu6ytm