
Information and the technology to rapidly transmit, analyze, document, and disperse this information are increasing arithmetically, if not logarithmi- cally. Arguably, no discipline better exemplifies this trend than medicine. It can be further argued that care of the trauma...

The three phases of trauma care (pre-hospital; hospital; and post- acute/rehabilitation) are based upon a philisophy of a continuum of care, which in turn necessitates a continuum of information. Trauma Informatics will be the first book to cover the subject of information systems...