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Editorial| Volume 42, ISSUE 2, P117-118, February 2011

Trauma research: An opportunity and a challenge

      Injury remains the leading cause of death in children and adults under 45 and is a major cause of short- and long-term morbidity.
      • Green S.
      • Miles R.
      The Burden of Disease and Illness in the UK.
      The recent National Audit Office report on major trauma repeated longstanding criticisms of trauma care in the NHS.
      Major trauma care in England.
      The Department of Health began work to address these after the 2007 NCEPOD report Trauma-Who Cares?

      Trauma – Who Cares? National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcomes and Deaths; 2007.

      Less talked about is the poor state of trauma research.
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