From the Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (E.R.H., E.B.S., A.P., A.H.H., K.A.S., D.T.E.), Department of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine (E.R.H., A.H.H., D.T.E., P.J.P.), and Department of Medicine (M.B.S.), The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Department of Surgery (D.C.C.), University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California; National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB) (M.L.L., C.H., A.B.N.), American College of Surgeons, Chicago, Illinois; St. Michael's Hospital (A.B.N.), Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and Department of Surgery (E.E.C.), Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC.
Submitted for publication September 3, 2010.
Accepted for publication November 18, 2010.
Supported by a K08 Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award (1K08HS017952-01) from The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) entitled “Does Screening Variability Make DVT an Unreliable Quality Measure of Trauma Care?” (to E.R.H.).
Presented at the Academic Surgical Congress, February 2010, San Antonio, Texas, and the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, September 22–25, 2010, Boston, Massachusetts.
Address for reprints: Elliott R. Haut, MD, FACS, Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe St., 625 Osler, Baltimore, MD 21287; email: [email protected].
