ReviewScandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine2010
The performance and assessment of hospital trauma teams.
Review in Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 70 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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70 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 162 citations in OpenAlex.
- Team leader communication in ad hoc teams and its impact on team outcomes: a systematic review.BMC health services research · 2025Pooled it
- Filming for auditing of real-life emergency teams: a systematic review.BMJ open quality · 2019Pooled it
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- Trauma team discord and the role of briefing.The journal of trauma and acute care surgery · 2016Trial
- Evaluation of the Sensitivity and Specificity of the Modified Moenchengladbach Resuscitation Team Activation (MJournal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
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- [The importance of the composition and activation of trauma teams].Chirurgie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Learning gain of an ATLSEuropean journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2026Article
- Influence of sociodemographic factors on expert-rated non-technical skills in trauma team simulations.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2026Article
- Effectiveness of Trauma Training Programs for Emergency Department Healthcare Providers: A Systematic Review.Journal of pharmacy & bioallied sciences · 2025Review
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- The Interface of Trauma Surgery and Interventional Radiology: The Trauma Surgeon's Perspective.Seminars in interventional radiology · 2025Review
- Influence of trainee's demographic variables on non-technical skill learning after trauma team simulation: cross-sectional study.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Outcomes of Traumatic Liver Injuries at a Level-One Tertiary Trauma Center in Saudi Arabia: A 10-Year Experience.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- [Composition of trauma room teams : Reality experienced in 12 transregional trauma centers].Unfallchirurgie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Observational
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- TraumaFlow-development of a workflow-based clinical decision support system for the management of severe trauma cases.International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery · 2024Article
- Translating training to medical practice in trauma care, a literature review.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2024Review
- Goodbye Hartmann trial: a prospective, international, multicenter, observational study on the current use of a surgical procedure developed a century ago.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2024Observational
10 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
The purpose of the trauma team is to provide advanced simultaneous care from relevant specialists to the seriously injured trauma patient. When functioning well, the outcome of the trauma team performance should be greater than the sum of its parts. Trauma teams have been shown to reduce the time taken for resuscitation, as well as time to CT scan, to emergency department discharge and to the operating room. These benefits are demonstrated by improved survival rates, particularly for the most severely injured patients, both within and outside of dedicated trauma centres. In order to ensure the best possible performance of the team, the leadership skills of the trauma team leader are essential and their non-technical skills have been shown to be particularly important. Team performance can be enhanced through a process of audit and assessment of the workings of the team and the evidence currently available suggests that this is best facilitated through the process of video review of the trauma resuscitation. The use of human patient simulators to train and assess trauma teams is becoming more commonplace and this technique offers a safe environment for the future education of trauma team staff. Trauma teams are a key component of most programmes which set out to improve trauma care. This article reviews the background of trauma teams, the evidence for benefit and potential techniques of performance assessment. The review was written after a PubMed, Ovid, Athens, Cochrane and guideline literature review of English language articles on trauma teams and their performance and hand searching of references from the relevant searched articles.
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