Trauma Quality 
Cognitive error in trauma: “My wife won’t get out of bed”
Imagine your emergency department receives an elderly patient who has been bedridden for a week with reduced water and food intake. There are none of…
Program Management
5 coding and billing mistakes that reduce trauma center revenue
Too many trauma programs are clinically strong but financially troubled. When this happens, hospital leaders may consider downgrading their trauma designation or even closing their…
Trauma Research
4 simple EMS interventions double survival in severe TBI
Results from a large prehospital care study show that patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) benefit significantly from four simple field interventions. The study…
Call for Papers: Trauma Performance Improvement
Has your trauma program implemented a performance improvement initiative that could help improve care, safety or efficiency at other trauma centers? If so, you are…
