ArticleSurgery2019
Failure to rescue as a center-level metric in pediatric trauma.
Article in Surgery, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
3 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- Clinical characteristics, management, and outcomes of polytraumatized children: a retrospective cohort study.International journal of emergency medicine · 2026Article
- Signal detection for pediatric patient deterioration with nursing students: An explanatory sequential design mixed-methods study.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2025Article
- Organ Donation after Damage Control Strategy in Trauma Patients: Experience from First Level Trauma Center in Italy.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundFailure to rescue is defined as death after a complication and has been used to evaluate quality of care in adult trauma patients, but there are no published studies on failure to rescue in pediatric trauma. The aim of this study was to define the relationship among rates of mortality, complications, and failure to rescue at centers caring for pediatric (<18 years of age) trauma patients in a nationally representative database.
methodsWe performed a retrospective cohort study of the 2015 and 2016 National Trauma Data Bank. We included patients <18 years of age with an Injury Severity Score of ≥9. We excluded centers with <50 pediatric patients or that reported no complications. We calculated the complication, failure to rescue, mortality, and precedence rates by center and divided centers into tertiles of mortality. We compared complication and failure-to-rescue rates between high and low tertiles of mortality using the Kruskal-Wallis test.
resultsOf 62,190 patients from 284 centers, 2,204 patients had at least 1 complication for an overall complication rate of 4% (center level 0%-15%), and 120 patients died after a complication for an overall failure-to-rescue rate of 5% (center level 0%-67%). High-mortality centers had both higher failure-to-rescue rates (10% vs 0.6%, P < .001) and higher complication rates (5% vs 4%, P = .001) than lower-mortality hospitals. The overall precedence rate was 15% with a median rate of 0% (interquartile range 0%-25%).
conclusionBoth complication and failure-to-rescue rates are low in the pediatric injury population, but both complication and failure-to-rescue rates are higher at higher-mortality centers. The low overall complication rates and precedence rates likely limit the utility of failure to rescue as a valid center-level metric in this population, but further investigation into individual failure-to-rescue cases may reveal important opportunities for improvement.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.