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Trauma System Performance- Act 4

By |2017-02-10T09:50:01-07:00November 6th, 2013|Prevention|

Over the past month we have been looking at some different ways to measure and describe how a trauma system is performing.  In the world of performance improvement the general belief is that you have to look at a number of different measures in order to be able to describe how the system is performing.  [...]

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Evaluating a Trauma System II

By |2017-02-10T09:50:04-07:00October 17th, 2013|General|

A couple of weeks ago, I introduced the concept of “Over Triage”…  which is when EMS transports a patient to the highest level of care (like a level I trauma center) when they could have taken them to a level III or IV trauma center closer to their home.  The downside of over-triage is that [...]

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