A Novel Approach to Assessment of US Pediatric Trauma System Development.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Mature trauma systems are critical in building and maintaining national, state, and local resilience against all-hazard disasters. Currently, pediatric state trauma system plans are not standardized and thus are without concrete measures of potential effectiveness.

Objective

To develop objective measures of pediatric trauma system capability at the state level, hypothesizing significant variation in capabilities between states, and to provide a contemporary report on the status of national pediatric trauma system planning and development.

Design, setting, and participants

A national survey was deployed in 2018 to perform a gap analysis of state pediatric trauma system capabilities. Four officials from each state were asked to complete the survey regarding e

SUBMITTER: Fallat ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9494270 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature