Creating a Comprehensive Trauma Center
Choices and Challenges
Authors: Williams, Mary Beth, Nurmi, Lasse A.
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Early Thoughts on Creating Comprehensive Trauma Centers This volume has been many years in writing. When Dr. Donald Meichenbaum first suggested it and I approached my coauthor Lasse Nurmi, it did not seem to be as formidable a task as it has become. Interviewing the centers in this book has taken years-to get responses, to summarize those responses, and to return the summaries for further comment. Many centers have been created in that time; others have suspended operation. This volume does not claim to present even a majority of those centers. However, the ones contained herein are representative of "what is out there. " The idea to create a comprehensive trauma center is not new. The initial section of this forward examines thoughts I proposed as part of my compre hensive examination for my doctorate. Many of the ideas proposed then (1989) seem to fit now. It is my dream to put them into practice someday in the future. THE COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION QUESTION In 1989, one question on the written comprehensive examination ques tions for my doctorate was, "If you were to create a comprehensive trauma center in your suburban area, making use of what you have learned in your [doctoral] experience, describe the organization of that center, the mission, structure, personnel, funding, objectives, and services it would offer. " Some of the conclusions reached then now seem applicable to the task at hand: design ing comprehensive trauma centers (CTCs) for the 21st century.
- Table of contents (16 chapters)
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The Comprehensive Trauma Center as an Organization
Pages 1-23
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The Need for Comprehensive Trauma Centers
Pages 25-39
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Privately Developed Trauma Centers in the United States
Pages 41-80
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Centers with Affiliations and Centers in Progress
Pages 81-102
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Private and Not-for-Profit Centers around the World
Pages 103-126
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Creating a Comprehensive Trauma Center
- Book Subtitle
- Choices and Challenges
- Authors
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- Mary Beth Williams
- Lasse A. Nurmi
- Series Title
- Springer Series on Stress and Coping
- Copyright
- 2001
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag US
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4757-3300-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4757-3300-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-306-46327-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4419-3335-5
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXII, 443
- Topics
