New Trauma Care System: DOD Should Fully Incorporate Leading Practices into its Planning for Effective Implementation

Abstract

Traumatic injury is a major cause of death and disability in the military, but improved trauma care has the potential to improve these outcomes. DOD has worked to improve trauma care over time, such as by establishing a Joint Trauma System Defense Center of Excellence to examine trauma care and share best practices. To improve trauma care across DOD, the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2017 directed DOD to establish a new JTS (Joint Trauma System) within DOD's Defense Health Agency. The NDAA requires that the new JTS include four specified elements, and also required DOD to submit to Congress an implementation plan that included the four elements. The NDAA also included a provision for GAO to review DOD's planning for the new JTS.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1157479

Entities

People

  • Carolyn Garvey
  • Debra A. Draper
  • Jacquelyn Hamilton
  • Jennie Apter
  • Sarah Sheehan
  • Will Simerl

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accountability
  • Best Practices
  • Civilian Personnel
  • Combat Casualty Care
  • Congress
  • Cost Estimates
  • Department Of Defense
  • Governments
  • Health
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Medicine
  • National Governments
  • Standards
  • Therapy
  • Training
  • United States Government
  • Wounds And Injuries

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Psychological Intervention/Treatment for Stress, Anxiety, PTSD, and Related Emotional and Cognitive Health Symptoms.