A National Trauma Care System: Integrating Military and Civilian Trauma Systems to Achieve Zero Preventable Deaths After Injury

by The National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, Committee on Military Trauma Care's Learning Health System and Its Translation to the Civilian Secto, Health and Medicine Division, et al.

Advances in trauma care have accelerated over the past decade, spurred by the significant burden of injury from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Between 2005 and 2013, the case fatality rate for United States service members injured in Afghanistan decreased by nearly 50 percent, despite an increase in the severity of injury among U.S. troops during the same period of time. But as the war in Afghanistan ends, knowledge and advances in trauma care...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309442850
• ISBN13: 9780309442855
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 530 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 9.0"