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Process times of severely injured patients in the emergency room are associated with patient volume: a registry-based analysis

Published Online: 2022-05-11

Published Print: 2022-12

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Lefering, Rolf https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0141-1747
Waydhas, Christian

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Funding for this research was provided by:

Private Universität Witten/Herdecke gGmbH
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Article History

Received: 11 February 2022

Accepted: 16 April 2022

First Online: 11 May 2022

Declarations

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: CW and RL declare that they have no competing interests. RL declares that his institution (University Witten/Herdecke) has an ongoing service agreement with AUC GmbH (Akademie der Unfallchirurgie; the owner of the TraumaRegister DGU) which includes the statistical support in registry data analysis.

: The present study is exclusively based on routinely collected data gathered for the purpose of legally required external quality control. Thus no patient consent was required. Our responsible ethics committee (University Witten/Herdecke, Germany) decided regarding a previous similar request (Reference no. 64/2018) that no separate vote is required when such de-personalized data are analyzed.

: Not applicable; no individual patient data used.

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