NTI Translational Research: funding, development, evaluation and implementation

NTI’s research priorities address 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, funds well-designed, large, prospective translational studies that have been designed to change practice, and coalesces multiple funding sources. To succeed, the research NTI funds must be based on 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.

NTI sets its research agenda each year to address areas of most pressing need.
The organization’s current research priority areas are: