NTI Translational Research: funding, development, evaluation, and implementation
The NTI research addresses the entire spectrum of injury: from prevention to pre-hospital care, through hospitalization to rehabilitation - mirroring the highly successful trauma system approach to care.
NTI implements evidence-based practices, products, concepts and treatment guidelines, fund well-designed, large, prospective translational studies that have been designed to change practice, and, finally, uses multiple funding sources.
Urgent subject areas of translational research include: injury prevention (body armor), triage, hemorrhage control, resuscitation, orthopedics, burn care, head injury, critical care, tissue engineering, rehabilitation and recovery, and outcomes research, with categories devoted specifically to the extremes of age within each subject area.
To succeed, research agendas must be based on the establishment of coordinated large-scale multicenter research collaborations. Multicenter networks enable researchers from the diverse disciplines within trauma care to assemble sufficiently large data sets to establish robust research findings. Translating these findings to changes in clinical practice will result in reduced death and disability.
SAVE THE DATE! 14th ANNUAL SAN ANTONIO TRAUMA SYMPOSIUM: August 25-27, 2008
