Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Immediate trauma management can reduce the impact of a traumatic event, and help expedite treatment. A national trauma center is a necessity for coordinating trauma management in mass trauma and disasters. Copyright © 2014, Kowsar Corp.; Published by Kowsar Corp. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the ...

BACKGROUND Alcohol abuse is recognized as a significant contributor to injury. It is therefore essential that trauma centers implement screening and brief intervention (SBI) to identify patients who are problem drinkers. Although, the utility of SBI in identifying at-risk drinkers have been widely studied in level 1 trauma centers, few studies have been done in level 2 centers. This study evalu...

the current challenge in health services research is disability to present comprehensive and effective intervention plans for community health promotion. there are numerous reasons in this regard, some of which can be overcome through performance-based participatory research methods. the population research center (prc) in tehran university of medical sciences (tums) provides the necessary grou...

To analyze the cofactors of alcohol-related trauma at a rural, Level II trauma center, 127 admitted trauma patients were interviewed about psychological problems, social factors, and medical histories. Patients were divided into two groups, blood alcohol content (BAC) positive and BAC negative, for analysis. Seventy-one patients (56%) were BAC negative; 56 (44%) were BAC positive. Forty-three o...

BACKGROUND A retrospective study was performed to identify the effect of non -operative management on splenic trauma patients and its implications at our Level I Trauma Centre between January 2007 and June 2008. METHODS Data regarding patient demography, mode of splenic injury, computerized tomography (CT) grading, blood transfusion requirement, operative findings, hospital stay, and followup...

BACKGROUND The Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) is a federally funded multi-center research network. To promote high quality research within the network, it is important to establish evaluation tools to measure performance of the research sites. PURPOSE To describe the collaborative development of a site performance measure tool "report card" in an academic pediatric...

BACKGROUND In 1996, Congress passed legislation requiring the Department of Defense to conduct trauma training in civilian hospitals. In September of 1998 an Army team composed of surgeons, nurses, emergency medical technicians (EMTs), and operating room technicians (OR techs) trained in a civilian level 1 trauma center. This study analyzes the quality of the training. METHODS The training pe...

BACKGROUND To decrease the burden of injuries it is essential to have an overview of trauma patterns and its management at regional trauma centers. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate some patterns of trauma and trauma-related therapeutic interventions at our trauma center. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a cross-sectional study, 19530 trauma cases admitted to the emergency departm...

PROBLEM STATEMENT: Rigorous evaluation assures that research endeavors meet their purpose and achieve stated goals. This is especially true for federally funded exploratory research centers, which tend to be more complex due to the involvement of multiple, interdisciplinary investigators. This study provides an overview of the approach used to develop an evaluation strategy and reports the less...

Shaping America’s Youth (SAY) took a model of civic engagement, the town hall meeting, applied it to a critical national health issue, and then went a step further by scientifically analyzing the results. Because of my 30-year experience with the civic-engagement field as a practitioner, a foundation program officer, and a director of an academic research center, I was invited by the SAY leader...