Low major trauma confidence among emergency physicians working outside major trauma services: Inevitable result of a centralised trauma system or evidence for change?
Mark PutlandMichael NoonanAlexander OlaussenPeter CameronMark Christopher FitzgeraldPublished in: Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA (2018)
Exposure to major trauma is associated with time spent working in a MTS and exposure is associated with confidence. A mature inclusive trauma system must ensure clinicians across the system gain the experience or training to provide trauma care that will result in similar outcomes for patients regardless of initial presenting hospital.