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Trauma-EMS Systems Program

The Trauma-EMS Systems Program helps State governments develop, implement and improve of systems of trauma care. The goal is to decrease the morbidity and mortality of individuals who utilize emergency medical systems as a result of suffering moderate-severe traumatic injuries.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The Trauma Care program has demonstrated success in assisting States in adopting statewide standardized triage protocals and designating trauma centers. Studies indicate with some consistency that improving organized systems of trauma care, specifically States designating trauma centers and adopting standardized triage protocals, leads to measurable decreases in mortality due to trauma.
  • Because the program's long-term measure is newly developed, it is not possible to determine at this time whether or not this program has been successful in decreasing the morbidity or mortality of moderately-to-severely injured persons who utilize EMS systems.
  • The Trauma Care program has not had any formal independent evaluations that have assessed its impact, such as whether or not the program has had success in decreasing the morbidity or mortality of moderately-to-severely injured persons who utilize EMS systems.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Ending this program. No funds were appropriated for this program for Fiscal Year 2006.

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