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Status of Trauma Center Designation

The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, 1989
1) In 1986 20 states are designating trauma centers. 2) ACS guidelines appear to be the accepted standard. 3) Almost all of the states providing designation retain the power of final designation but allow individual hospitals to initiate the process. 4) Designation is usually based on actual capability and frequently requires a site visit team in which
C, Aprahamian, C C, Wolferth, J C, Darin, J, McMahon, C, Weitzel-DeVeas   +4 more
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Community Hospital to Trauma Center

The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, 1986
The Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons published a report in 1976 charging hospitals to provide care for seriously injured patients. Implementing an effective emergency care/trauma system in a not-for-profit community hospital was a task that demanded leadership, substantial time, and commitment. The building process could not have
E L, Dunn, P H, Berry, R E, Cross
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A Rural Regional Trauma Center

The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, 1983
New developments in the organization of trauma care management at the Mayo Clinic are presented along with a review of the first 4 years' experience of a Regional Trauma Center at the Mayo Clinic-affiliated Saint Marys Hospital. Application of the Injury Severity Score (ISS) in the analysis of blunt traumatic deaths has permitted an internal evaluation
P, Mucha, M B, Farnell, J M, Czech, L J, Melton   +3 more
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Trauma center closure: effects on an adjacent trauma center.

The American surgeon, 1991
The effects of the closure of a busy trauma center on an adjacent university trauma hospital were analyzed. Significant increases were found in monthly volume (P less than .01) and frequency of penetrating injuries (P less than .05) and significant decreases in patients with insurance coverage (P less than .01) and numbers requiring intensive care (P ...
J R, Hiatt, M R, Kobayashi, G, Dees, K J, Ransom   +3 more
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PEDIATRIC TRAUMA PATIENTS IN AN ‘ADULT' TRAUMA CENTER

The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, 1993
The injury patterns, age distribution, and outcome of pediatric patients (age < 15 years) treated in an "adult" trauma center is incompletely defined. A total of 1115 pediatric trauma patients (9.6% total trauma admissions) treated over a 6-year period in a level I suburban trauma center without a pediatric trauma service or a pediatric surgeon were ...
M, Rhodes, S, Smith, D, Boorse
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World Trauma Center

American Literary History, 2009
For a brief moment following September 11, a space for critical dialogue seemed to open up. Americans wanted to understand Islam, the Middle East, and the history of American involvement in the region. Joan Didion was on a book tour in those weeks, meeting people all over the country who “were making connections I had not yet in my numbed condition ...
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Veterinary Trauma Centers

Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care, 2013
Kelly, Hall, Armelle, deLaforcade
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Trauma Center

2012
William G. Cioffi, Michael D. Connolly, Charles A. Adams, Mechem C. Crawford, Aaron Richman, William H. Shoff, Catherine T. Shoff, Suzanne M. Shepherd, Benjamin S. Abella, Thomas H. Cogbill, Stefan De Hert, Christiaan Keijzer, Toby M. Enniss, J. Wayne Meredith, Sacha Zeerleder, Sacha Zeerleder, Kenneth L. Mattox, Frederick Fiesseler, Richard D. Shih, Marina S. Morgan, Edmund Ong, Nikhil Premchand, Gregory W. Fischer, Edmond Cohen, Robert S. Green, Donald Griesdale, Christian Byhahn, Charles G. Durbin, Gregory J. Jurkovich, Marcus J. Schultz, Ognjen Gajic, Richard J. Mullins, Christian A. Hamlat, Ronald V. Maier, Christian A. Hamlat, Ronald V. Maier, E. Mark Hammerberg, Raeanna C. Adams, Oliver L. Gunter, John A. Morris, David K. Menon, Jordan Bonomo, Edgardo S. Salcedo, Jose L. Pascual, Philip F. Stahel, Michael A. Flierl, Brittany Matava, David C. Cone, Rui P. Moreno, Susan M. Lareau, Richard H. Beigi, Stefan Herget-Rosenthal, Keri A. Cohn, Sarah L. Wingerter, Lise E. Nigrovic   +54 more
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Effects of Trauma Center Consolidation on Adult Trauma at a Rural Level 1 Trauma Center

The American Surgeon™
Objective The aim was to determine the impact of consolidation of two rural level 1 trauma centers on adult trauma patients presenting to the remaining level 1 trauma center. To our knowledge, a study assessing the impact of trauma center consolidation on adult trauma patients had yet to be performed.
Matthew A. Heard, Sheree Bray, Allen Archer, Payton C. O'Quinn, Hannah Wheeler, Matthew Leonard, J. Bracken Burns   +6 more
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Trauma Center Designation and Outcomes

Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2006
It was interesting to review the recent publication comparing outcomes between trauma centers based on information from the National Trauma Data Bank. Having worked with database-related research, I have come to appreciate the difficulties in providing valid conclusions from analysis of data collected without rigorous standardization.
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