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Evidence-Based Trauma Care

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Evidence-based trauma care requires the provider to combine the best evidence with patient values and provider preferences to make treatment decisions. The practice of evidence-based trauma care requires the formulation of question, acquisition of related literature, appraisal of study quality, and the appropriate application of research findings to individual patients. Evidence-based trauma care may not be able to strictly depend on the results of randomized controlled trials. Practically, evidence-based management should involve the informed and effective use of all types of evidence.

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  1. Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, McMaster University, Center for Evidence Based Orthopaedics, Hamilton, ON, Canada

    Daniel Axelrod, Marianne Comeau-Gauthier, Taylor Woolnaugh, Herman Johal & Mohit Bhandari

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  1. Department of Trauma Surgery, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Hans-Christoph Pape

  2. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery & Sports Medicine, The University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL, USA

    Joseph Borrelli Jr.

  3. Ernest E. Moore Shock Trauma Center at Denver Health, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA

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  5. Rocky Vista University, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Parker, CO, USA

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Axelrod, D., Comeau-Gauthier, M., Woolnaugh, T., Johal, H., Bhandari, M. (2022). Evidence-Based Trauma Care. In: Pape, HC., Borrelli Jr., J., Moore, E.E., Pfeifer, R., Stahel, P.F. (eds) Textbook of Polytrauma Management . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95906-7_3

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