Trauma systems
Subtitle: evidence, research, action ; Skamania Symposium 1998
By: editor Basil A. Pruitt, Jr.
Contributors: Pruitt, Basil A., 1930-
Series: Supplement to the Journal of trauma injury, infection, and critical care -- v. 47, no. 3, September 1999; Journal of trauma injury, infection, and critical care -- v. 47, no. 3.
Publisher: Williams & Wilkins
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 110
Subjects: Emergency medical services -- Congresses.; Hospitals -- Emergency services -- Congresses.
Other titles: Skamania Symposium 1998
Notes: Cover title.

Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: value: A historical perspective of trauma system development in the United States / Richard J. Mullins; value: Update on trauma system development in the United States / Robert R. Bass, Patricia S. Gainer, and Anthony R. Carlini; value: Community-based trauma system development : key barriers and facilitating factors / Gloria J. Bazzoli; value: systematic review of published evidence regarding trauma system effectiveness /  N. Clay Mann, Richard J. Mullins, Ellen J. MacKenzie, Gregory J. Jurkovich, and Charles N. Mock; value: Review of evidence regarding trauma system effectiveness resulting from panel studies / Ellen J. MacKenzie; value: Use of panel study methods / David B. Hoyst; value: Panel reviews of trauma mortality / Donald D. Trunkey; value: Systematic review of trauma system effectiveness based on registry comparisons / Gregory J. Jurkovich and Charles Mock; value: Trauma registry data and TRISS evidence / Daniel A. Pollock; value: Population-based research assessing the effectiveness of trauma systems  / Richard J. Mulllins and N. Clay Mann; value: What have we learned about population-based investigations? / Jerris R. Hedges; value: Assessing the effectiveness and optimal structure of trauma systems : a consensus among experts / N. Clay Mann; value: Research recommendations and proposed action items to facilitate trauma system implementation and evaluation / N. Clay Mann and Richard J. Mullins; value: Video address / Ricardo Martinez; value: Trauma care systems; value: what's the catch? / Mark L. Rosenberg, Daniel Pollock, and Richard Waxweiler; value: Pediatric trauma systems : critical distinctions / Frieda Hulka; value: Toward a new millenium in pediatric trauma care / Arthur Cooper; value: Comparing institutional trauma survival to a standard : current limitations and suggested alternatives/ David E. Clark; value: An economic evaluation of trauma care in a Canadian lead trauma hospital / Jean Séguin, Bryan G. Garber, Douglas Coyle, and Paul C. Hébert; value: The value of quality-adjusted life years : commentary on Séguin et al. / Thomas J. Esposito; value: Trauma system development : the critical need for regional needs assessments / Daniel K. Lowe; value: Reflections on the Skamania Conference : an emergency physician's perspective / Richard C. Hunt; value: Toward the all-inclusive trauma system / Nabil A. Atweh; value: American College of Emergency Physicians policy statement : trauma care systems development, evaluation and funding.