Meeting the needs of the sexual assault victim

✍ Scribed by Robert A Rosen; Peggy Golden

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 137 KB
• Volume: 21
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1097-6760
• DOI: 10.1016/s0196-0644(05)82794-5

✦ Synopsis

QI indicators focusing on the system's providers (ie, system management, prehospital care, hospital care, and rehabilitation) have been developed in a manner that facilitates computerized screening of large volumes of data gleaned from facility-based trauma registries, emergency medical services system registries, and other linked data bases. This methodology provides trauma care system managers with an important tool needed for the objective evaluation of overall system function. It must be stressed that these QI indicators are intended to detect trends in performance and do not replace either facility QI or individual case reviews.

ACEP remains committed to the concept that the severely injured patient is best cared for in a system that is appropriately designed and operated. The Trauma Care System Improvement Guidelines provides the trauma care system manager with a valuable tool for evaluating system performance. We hope that the implementation of these QI guidelines will improve system performance and, in so doing, minimize injury-related suffering, disability, and death in our society.