Clinical Support Services: Research

Clinical Support Services: Research 1. The trauma research program must be designated to produce new knowledge applicable to the care of the injured patients. The research may be conducted in a number of ways including traditional laboratory and clinical research, reviews of clinical series, and epidemiological or other studies. Publications of articles in peer-review journals as well as presentations of results in local, regional, and national meetings and ongoing studies approved by human and animal research review boards are expected from productive programs. The program should have an organized structure that fosters and monitors ongoing productivity. 2. The research program must be balanced to reflect the number of different interests. There must be a research committee, and identifiable Institutional Review Board process, active research protocols, surgeons involved in extramural educational presentations and adequate number of peer reviewed scientific publications. Publications should appear in peer-reviewed journals. In a three- year cycle, the suggested minimum activity is ten publications (per review cycle) from the physicians representing the membership of the trauma team.