This month, a Research Methodology conference hosted by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS COT) and the Coalition for National Trauma Research (CNTR) took a step closer toward matching research efforts with the societal burden of traumatic injury—the #1 cause of death from age 1-46 and the #3 cause of death overall in the United States. Yet,
Read moreJanuary 10, 2019–Yesterday, the steering committee of the National Trauma Research Action Plan (NTRAP) project met in Washington, D.C. for its launch. As its first aim, the NTRAP project is assembling 11 panels of experts, who span the continuum of trauma care from prevention and pre-hospital through rehabilitation and long-term outcomes. Over the next two years, the panels will embark
Read moreIn the fiscal year 2018 Omnibus Appropriations Bill signed into law in March, Congress appropriated additional funding for a trauma clinical research network. Congress added $10 million in the Defense Health Program Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E) Account for the Trauma Clinical Research Program, which was first proposed by the Coalition for National Trauma Research in 2015. Since CNTR
Read moreMarch 19, 2018–Following a lobbying effort by members of the Coalition for National Trauma Research (CNTR) in February, House members Joaquin Castro (TX-20), Will Hurd (TX-23), Dutch Ruppersberger (MD-02) and Joseph Kennedy, III (MA-04) took the lead on a request for funding, authoring a letter to the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee in support of a National Trauma Research Action Plan (NTRAP).
Read moreFebruary 6, 2018–Today more than two dozen trauma surgeons, trauma program managers and trauma survivors meet with their members of Congress in Washington to raise awareness about the need for a National Trauma Research Action Plan (NTRAP). In its 2016 report on a national trauma care system, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued 11 recommendations for
Read morePointing to its own work to arrive at a national trauma research agenda, the Coalition for National Trauma Research (CNTR) offered its unqualified support for the formation of a National Trauma Research Action Plan, as recommended in the 2016 NASEM Report (A National Trauma Care System–Integrating Military and Civilian Trauma Systems to Achieve Zero Preventable Deaths After Injury). The CNTR
Read moreDespite significant advances made in U.S. trauma care and systems over the past 50 years, traumatic injury continues to be an unacceptable and increasing societal burden, argues Kimberly Davis, MD, CNTR executive committee member and professor in the Dept. of Surgery at Yale University, in an opinion piece published in JAMA Surgery in December. Davis and co-authors Timothy Fabian, MD,
Read moreA recent report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine states that advances in military trauma care achieved during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars can be translated to the civilian sector to improve trauma care for all Americans. Sustaining these military advances, and closing the gap between the military and civilian sectors, can help to improve trauma care—to
Read moreToday Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) introduced a bill (H.R. 6132) that would implement many of the recommendations offered in the June 2016 National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) Report, A National Trauma Care System: Integrating Military and Civilian Trauma Systems to Achieve Zero Preventable Deaths After Injury. The legislation seeks to lay the groundwork for a plan for
Read moreThe November issue of the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery carries a number of articles related to the June 2016 Report of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) titled A National Trauma Care System: Integrating Military and Civilian Trauma Systems to Achieve Zero Preventable Deaths After Injury. Authored by various military and civilian stakeholders in
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