Missed injuries in trauma patients: a literature review.

Roman Pfeifer; Hans-Christoph Pape

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Missed injuries in trauma patients: a literature review.

October 8, 2008

Pfeifer R, Pape H-C. Patient Saf Surg. 2008;2:20.

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This review found that missed injuries and delayed diagnoses occur frequently, with many of the missed injuries being clinically significant. The authors call for standardized studies using comparable definitions of such injuries.

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