Montana Code 50-6-412. Duties of regional trauma care advisory committees
50-6-412. Duties of regional trauma care advisory committees. A regional trauma care advisory committee shall:
Terms Used In Montana Code 50-6-412
- Department: means the department of public health and human services provided for in Title 2, chapter 15, part 22. See Montana Code 50-6-401
- Quality improvement: means the process of defining trauma care system performance standards, collecting data against which the standards may be applied, using the data to determine compliance with the standards, and using the data and compliance information in a nonpunitive manner, including peer review, that will continuously improve performance and facilitate compliance with the standards. See Montana Code 50-6-401
- Trauma: means a severe, abrupt injury to the human body that is caused by mechanical, environmental, thermal, or other physical force. See Montana Code 50-6-401
- Trauma care committee: means the trauma care committee created in 2-15-2216. See Montana Code 50-6-401
- Trauma care system: means a state or regional system for the prevention of trauma and the provision of optimal medical care to trauma victims that includes both provision of appropriate health care services and provision of emergency medical care, equipment, and personnel for effective and coordinated prehospital, hospital, interhospital, and rehabilitative care for trauma patients. See Montana Code 50-6-401
(1)establish standards, policies, procedures, and protocols for the regional trauma care system;
(2)conduct regional trauma care quality improvement, including receipt of reports prepared by the department containing trauma care data and making recommendations to trauma care facilities within the region based upon those reports;
(3)advise the trauma care committee concerning the statewide trauma care system;
(4)establish trauma education and injury prevention programs;
(5)provide advice concerning trauma care to health care facilities and other providers of health care;
(6)perform other duties required by department rule; and
(7)conduct other activities needed to ensure optimal delivery of trauma care services within the region.