Faculty

Needs Statement

It has been shown that obtaining verification as a trauma center improves mortality outcomes. However, ensuring uniformity of care can be challenging when organizing a trauma center or introducing new technologies or methods. Practice management guidelines offer a means to accomplish this goal. This talk reviews why and how practice management guidelines were implemented at the new George Washington University Trauma Center and how these guidelines are audited.

Target Audience

Trauma Directors and Trauma Surgeons 

Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

1. Review GW's History as a Trauma Center.
2. Describe the Road to Recovery and use of PMGs in this effort.
3. List Future Plans.
4. Discuss issues in a growing Level II Trauma Center that led to the necessity of utilizing the EAST Practice Management Guidelines for standardization of care.
5. Utilize several case studies to illustrate the care continuum before and after the implementation of several EAST Practice Management Guidelines.
6. Discuss how the current use of these guidelines has assisted with the performance of Process Improvement and elevated the level of quality between and among the members of the Trauma Service.

Accreditation

CME
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, and Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma. The University of Kentucky College of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Kentucky College of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The University of Kentucky College of Medicine presents this activity for educational purposes only. Participants are expected to utilize their own expertise and judgment while engaged in the practice of medicine. The content of the presentations is provided solely by presenters who have been selected for presentations because of recognized expertise in their field.

ACGME Competencies

• Patient care

Faculty Disclosure

No speaker, planner or content reviewer has any relevant financial relationships to disclose. No speaker will discuss the off-label use of a product.

Content review confirmed that the content was developed in a fair, balanced manner free from commercial bias. Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone commercial bias in any presentation, but it is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation.

Acknowledgement

This activity is jointly provided by the University of Kentucky and Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma.