Necessity for a National Trauma Center

Necessity for a National Trauma Center

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 ...

Reliability adjustment: a necessity for trauma center ranking and benchmarking.

BACKGROUND Currently, trauma center quality benchmarking is based on risk adjusted observed-expected (O/E) mortality ratios. However, failure to account for number of patients has been recently shown to produce unreliable mortality estimates, especially for low-volume centers. This study explores the effect of reliability adjustment (RA), a statistical technique developed to eliminate bias intr...

national trauma registry center, as a backbone of trauma management and research

National Trauma Registry Center, as a Backbone of Trauma Management and Research

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Today we are facing with an increasing number of multiple trauma patients resulting from vehicle accidents, disasters and wa...

The necessity for a national consent on the conservation of sturgeon in the Caspian Sea

In the present study, the fishing status and production of caviar from wild sturgeon as well as the stocks rehabilitation of these species in the Caspian Sea have been analyzed over the past few years. Unfortunately, due to certain reasons such as overfishing and poaching, destruction of spawning areas and natural habitats, environmental pollution and reduced the number of released juveniles st...