Trauma outpatient follow-up

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This informal polling might be a good starting point - but it's not scientific and not research.

If you want to do a scientific survey, you need to control for who is sent the survey, measure how many respond, and then calculate the answer percentages.

JGS

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>>> On 12/21/2011 at  4:11 PM, in message
<CABPinVj4EGv=AbjJsuo3C4C5ACt41kd3DTGQ-X+J9_RQKTh-XQ at mail.gmail.com>, Srinivas
H Reddy MD <reddysmd at gmail.com> wrote:
> A colleague of mine is doing research on outpatient follow up of
> trauma patients and asked if I could put a few questions out there:
> 
> First, do ALL admitted Trauma patients get an outpatient Trauma clinic
> follow up appointment on discharge, regardless of their injuries +/-
> operation?
> 
> Second, when do you routinely see those patients being followed? (eg.
> within 1 week, 1 - 2 weeks, 2 - 4 weeks)
> 
> And lastly, what percentage would you say of those patients given a
> follow up appointment actually show up for it?
> 
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Srinivas Haj Reddy, MD
> Trauma & Surgical Critical Care
> Jacobi Medical Center
> Assistant Professor of Surgery
> Albert Einstein College of Medicine
> Bronx, New York
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