To recognize Blood Clot Awareness Month in March, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) unveiled a comprehensive toolkit titled “Blood Clot Awareness, Action, and Advocacy: The Toolkit.” This document contains information on blood clots, Blunt Rochester’s bipartisan work in Congress to spread awareness of blood clots, and ways the public can advocate for themselves and others […] The post National Toolkit Released during Blood Clot Awareness Month appeared first on Coalition for National Trauma Research ..read more

First Meeting of I-REP Panel Provides Valuable Input for Investigators Thirteen members of the newly formed I-REP Patient & Caregiver Panel met virtually for its first official feedback session on January 30, 2024. The session agenda included discussion of a new surgical trainee curriculum called the Fundamentals of Communication in Surgery (FCS). The curriculum was developed by […] The post Patients and Caregivers Respond to New Curriculum and EFIC Research Proposal appeared first on Coalition for National Trauma Research ..read more

In a Design for Implementation Conference session titled, “Distress and Clinical Guidance: Practical Advice for Humans,” professional coach and grief counselor Sabrina Vogler, CPC, CEC, CGSS, will share with trauma care professionals tools from the practice of mindfulness to help access their mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual faculties at the highest level. A globally recognized […] The post Begin your Mindfulness Practice at the Design for Implementation Conference appeared first on Coalition for National Trauma Research ..read more

The demands on rural providers and the unique challenges of rural trauma systems will be the topic of discussion during a panel discussion: “Clinical Guidance Access and Applicability: The Rural Provider’s Experience” at the Design for Implementation Conference, scheduled for February 21-22, 2024. With a passion for frontier trauma, ER/trauma nurse Alyssa Johnson is the […] The post Design For Implementation Conference to Spotlight the Plight of Rural Trauma Systems and Teams appeared first on Coalition for National Trauma Research ..read more

A series of articles to be published in the Dallas Morning News beginning today, November 28, 2023, illuminates the public health crisis that trauma surgeons have long lived and decried: the thousands of Americans dying from uncontrolled bleeding, when their deaths are preventable. Investigative reporter Lauren Caruba spent more than two years interviewing trauma surgeons, […] The post Dallas Morning News Series Sheds Light on the Crisis of Traumatic Injury appeared first on Coalition for National Trauma Research ..read more

When she was a college student, Molly Jarman saw first-hand how lack of access to emergency care affects those who live in rural America. When her roommate’s father was injured in a car crash in a small North Carolina town, the closest emergency room was two hours away. To make matters worse, bad weather that […] The post Dr. Molly Jarman Collaborates with CNTR in Quest to Reduce Disparities appeared first on Coalition for National Trauma Research ..read more

Outside of well-funded, urban trauma centers, too many critically injured patients die needlessly or suffer excessive disability following delayed or substandard care. Effective development and equitable and rapid dissemination of clinical practice guidelines is needed to help close the performance gaps between the trauma center haves and have-nots. Lives and livelihoods depend on it. The […] The post All Trauma Patients Deserve Evidence-Based Care: It’s Time to Deliver appeared first on Coalition for National Trauma Research ..read more

With a newly awarded contract from the US Department of Defense’s (DOD) Combat Casualty Care Research Program (CCCRP), the Coalition for National Trauma Research will curate, harmonize and upload a tranche of high-quality legacy data into the National Trauma Research Repository (NTRR); update common data elements (CDEs); and integrate the repository in coordination with the […] The post CNTR Receives DoD Contract to Integrate the National Trauma Research Repository into FITBIR appeared first on Coalition for National Trauma Research ..read more

The Coalition for National Trauma Research once again earned Guidestar’s Platinum Seal for 2023. Guidestar, now collaborating with Foundation Center as Candid, is a trusted, third-party verifier of nonprofit excellence. Candid is an international organization that supports best practices for nonprofit governance though its searchable database of thousands of organizations that have provided their tax […] The post CNTR Once Again Earns Highest Marks for Nonprofit Transparency appeared first on Coalition for National Trauma Research ..read more

To celebrate their healthcare tenants on National Doctor’s Day, medical real estate operating and leasing firm Lillibridge Healthcare Services (LHS) made a generous $20,000 donation to the Coalition for National Trauma Research today. March 30th is Doctors’ Day, an annual observance aimed at appreciating physicians who help save lives everywhere, and each year, the firm […] The post Lillibridge Healthcare Services Donates to CNTR on National Doctor’s Day appeared first on Coalition for National Trauma Research ..read more