The Integrated Military Partnerships and Civilian Trauma Systems (IMPACT) Study is an innovative project that seeks to develop a conceptual framework, informed by scoping review, survey and qualitative analysis, designed to guide the integration of military and civilian trauma systems at policy level, aimed at maximizing building trauma capacity through coordinated engagement and integration between the two systems.
The initial phase of this project seeks to accomplish the following:
- Assessment of current practices globally with regards to military and civilian trauma systems collaboration
- To identify the key areas within the trauma systems for integration
- To formulate consistent, accepted terminology used to categorize the continuum of levels of current integration
- To provide this assessment as an open resource for military and civilian trauma surgeons, emergency medicine physicians, nurses and other healthcare providers working in this area
We are currently recruiting participants to complete a survey that aims to identify the functions and capabilities of military and civilian trauma systems around the world, and the level of integration that may exist between them.
We are interested in the perspectives of civilian AND military healthcare providers who have worked or trained in the pre-hospital, in-hospital, and/or post-hospital sector providing trauma care. We are also interested in the perspectives of public health experts or advisors involved in trauma systems development at a facility, regional and governmental level.
Please direct questions about this project to impacttraumastudy@gmail.com