Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Volume 209, Issue 4 , Pages 521-530.e1 , October 2009

The Trauma Quality Improvement Program of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma

  • Shahid Shafi, MD, MPH, FACS

      Affiliations

    • Trauma Quality Improvement Group (TQIP), the American College of Surgeons, Committee on Trauma, Chicago, IL
    • Department of Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence address: Shahid Shafi, MD, MPH, Baylor Health Care System, 1600 W College St, Suite LL 10, Grapevine, TX 76051
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  • Avery B. Nathens, MD, PhD, FACS

      Affiliations

    • Trauma Quality Improvement Group (TQIP), the American College of Surgeons, Committee on Trauma, Chicago, IL
    • Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • H. Gill Cryer, MD, PhD, FACS

      Affiliations

    • Trauma Quality Improvement Group (TQIP), the American College of Surgeons, Committee on Trauma, Chicago, IL
    • Department of Surgery, University of California Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
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  • Mark R. Hemmila, MD, FACS

      Affiliations

    • Trauma Quality Improvement Group (TQIP), the American College of Surgeons, Committee on Trauma, Chicago, IL
    • Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI
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  • Michael D. Pasquale, MD, FACS

      Affiliations

    • Trauma Quality Improvement Group (TQIP), the American College of Surgeons, Committee on Trauma, Chicago, IL
    • Department of Surgery, Lehigh Valley Hospital, Lehigh, PA
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  • David E. Clark, MD, FACS

      Affiliations

    • Trauma Quality Improvement Group (TQIP), the American College of Surgeons, Committee on Trauma, Chicago, IL
    • Department of Surgery, Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME
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  • Melanie Neal, MS

      Affiliations

    • Trauma Quality Improvement Group (TQIP), the American College of Surgeons, Committee on Trauma, Chicago, IL
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  • Sandra Goble, MS

      Affiliations

    • Trauma Quality Improvement Group (TQIP), the American College of Surgeons, Committee on Trauma, Chicago, IL
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  • J. Wayne Meredith, MD, FACS

      Affiliations

    • Trauma Quality Improvement Group (TQIP), the American College of Surgeons, Committee on Trauma, Chicago, IL
    • Department of Surgery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
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  • John J. Fildes, MD, FACS

      Affiliations

    • Trauma Quality Improvement Group (TQIP), the American College of Surgeons, Committee on Trauma, Chicago, IL
    • Department of Surgery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV

Received 16 March 2009 ,Revised 25 June 2009 ,Accepted 6 July 2009.

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 Based partly on proceedings of a plenary session at the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma 22nd Annual Meeting, January 2009, Orlando, FL.

PII: S1072-7515(09)00994-6

doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2009.07.001

Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Volume 209, Issue 4 , Pages 521-530.e1 , October 2009