Health systems and services: the role of acute care.

Health systems and services: the role of acute care Jon Mark Hirshon, Nicholas Risko, Emilie JB Calvello, Sarah Stewart de Ramirez, Mayur Narayan, Christian Theodosis, & Joseph O’Neill, for the Acute Care Research Collaborative at the University of Maryland Global Health Initiative a Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 10 South Paca Street, Room 4S-127, Baltimore MD 21201, United States of America (USA). b Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA. c R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA. d Global Health Initiatives, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA. Correspondence to Jon Mark Hirshon (e-mail: [email protected]). (Submitted: 9 September 2012 – Revised version received: 7 January 2013 – Accepted: 11 January 2013 – Published online: 31 January 2013)