High Acuity Polytrauma Centers in Orthopaedic Trauma: Decreasing Patient Mortality With Effective Resource Utilization

Regionalization of health care is a structured way of delivering high-quality, cost-efficient medical care. Regionalization is designed to offer improved patient outcomes through two mechanisms: 1) improved patient outcomes at specialized, experienced centers and 2) improved care coordination within a given geographic region. Within emergency care, regionalization of trauma, interventional cardiology, neurology, critical care medicine, and pediatric emergency medicine has become increasingly common as a means of concentrating integrated, interspecialty expertise to provide high-value care.

Source: Injury - June 23, 2020 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Andrew M. Schwartz, Christopher Staley, Jacob M. Wilson, William M. Reisman, Mara L. Schenker Source Type: research