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We begin here with the description of what makes a hospital a trauma center. The key personnel for management of the trauma center as well as some of the administrative aspects. There is also a discussion of whether your community needs a trauma center based on the known incidence of major trauma patients in our US populations.
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Young, J.S. (2020). What Is a Trauma Center?. In: Trauma Centers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34607-2_1
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