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A trauma system can be defined as an organized and co-ordinated provision of care to all trauma patients, involving injury prevention, pre-hospital, in-hospital, and rehabilitative phases of care. Trauma systems are widely recognized to improve patient outcome from trauma. This makes logical sense, in that haphazard medical care is unlikely to achieve targets for resuscitation and definitive treatment of the population with penetrating trauma. Patients fare better when there is a prepared and co-ordinated response to injury.
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Royal College of Surgeons and British Orthopaedic Association. Better Care for the Severely Injured. London: RCS(Eng); 2000. www.rcseng.ac.uk
The Trauma Audit & Research Network. www.tarn.ac.uk
Trauma: Who cares? National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death. London: NCEPOD; 2007. www.ncepod.org.uk
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Smith, J. (2011). Civilian Trauma Systems. In: Brooks, A., Clasper, J., Midwinter, M., Hodgetts, T., Mahoney, P. (eds) Ryan's Ballistic Trauma. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-124-8_13
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