Boone, Sherry M.Collier, Bryan R.Faulks, Emily R.Locklear, Tonja M.Bower, Katie L.Lollar, Daniel I.Dhiman, NitashaNussbaum, Michael S.Hamill, Mark E.2021-03-022021-03-022020http://hdl.handle.net/10919/102527The purpose of this study was to assess the long-term mortality of adult and geriatric trauma patients who undergo tracheostomy and/or gastrostomy tube placement after severe trauma. Our hypothesis is that geriatric trauma patients who undergo tracheostomy and/or gastrostomy tube placement will have significantly worse mortality after hospital discharge than adult patients undergoing similar procedures.application/pdfenCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 InternationalgastrostomygeriatricsmortalitytracheostomytraumaArticle - Refereedhttps://doi.org/10.1097/01.ccm.0000529557.26273.412