January 2018 EMS Update: Improving Trauma Care to Reduce Preventable Deaths

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January 10th, 2018

Federal Agencies host listening session to discuss ways ti implement recommendations of groundbreaking report on trauma.

During the meeting, which was held in Washington, DC, on December 6, many attendees discussed the importance of increasing data collection and integration in order to truly understand the problem and measure the effectiveness of improvement efforts. For example, several experts stressed the importance of linking prehospital and hospital data to medical examiner data in order to even determine which deaths were “preventable” and further analyze the care provided.