Trauma Quality Programs

Performance Improvement - Patient Safety

The PIPS program is designed to help hospitals achieve the highest quality of trauma care for their patients. This goal is accomplished by providing guidelines for management of specific injuries, performance improvement tools and strategies to assure patient safety and optimal outcomes.

Best Practices Guidelines

These guidelines are created by leading health care professionals in each field. They provide a valuable resource for trauma centers to evaluate potential opportunities for modifying their practices and give them tools to help evaluate their implementation.

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Trauma Protocols Repository

A collaborative initiative of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Committee on Trauma (COT), the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST), and the Pediatric Trauma Society (PTS), the repository provides concise, evidence-informed protocols developed through multidisciplinary expert consensus to assist trauma centers in developing or refining local clinical protocols.

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Mortality Reporting System

The MRS is an anonymous means of reporting cases with potentially preventable adverse outcomes. Cases are reviewed by a team of experts and evidence-based strategies are identified that might prevent another similar event.

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