Patterns of errors contributing to trauma mortality: lessons learned from 2,594 deaths.
Gruen RL, Jurkovich GJ, McIntyre LK, et al. Patterns of Errors Contributing to Trauma Mortality. Transactions of the .. Meeting of the American Surgical Association. 2006;124. doi:10.1097/01.sla.0000234655.83517.56.
The researchers audited 9 years of records related to inpatient trauma deaths and found identifiable error patterns that can be used to target error interventions.