RT Journal
A1 Sukoff MH
T1 TRauma care study
JF Archives of Surgery
JO Archives of Surgery
YR 1979
FD December 1
VO 114
IS 12
SP 1441
OP 1442
DO 10.1001/archsurg.1979.01370360095014
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.1979.01370360095014
AB To the Editor.—Early in their careers, physicians are taught the responsibility of accuracy and validity. Abuse of a scientific forum is a serious matter, with wide-ranging implications for individual patient care and medicolegal issues. Drs West, Trunkey, and Lim in the Archives (114:455-460, 1979) described a method and offered conclusions relating to comparisons of the quality of emergency medical care between two geographical areas. The report almost totally avoids the qualifications necessary for a valid scientific presentation. The Society of Neurologic Surgeons of Orange County, Calif, has determined that none of the authors of this report is either a neurosurgeon or a neuropathologist, or has ever consulted with members of either specialty. The authors are thus unqualified to assess care of patients with injuries to the CNS. Furthermore, a committee of the Society of Neurological Surgeons of Orange County has reviewed the available CNS-injury material of their report and