Interfacility transfers in a non-trauma system setting: an assessment of the Greek reality.

Background: Quality assessment of any trauma system involves the evaluation of the transferring patterns. This study aims to assess interfacility transfers in the absence of a formal trauma system setting and to estimate the benefits from implementing a more organized structure.

Methods: The 'Report of the Epidemiology and Management of Trauma in Greece' is a one year project of trauma patient reporting throughout the country.

Traumatic rupture of the diaphragm: experience with 65 patients.

Traumatic diaphragmatic rupture is reported with increasing frequency and is associated with high morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this study was to present our experience with the management of this injury. Sixty-five patients with TDR were treated in our hospital between January 1989 and May 2000.