A plea for Croatian trauma system.
This paper provides an insight into Croatian health system with special focus on trauma care. The current situation is explained from a domestic point of view, but an independent review by foreign observers is also included. Fragmented approach to the treatment of injured patients in Croatia should be replaced by networking of health care componenets into a unique chain of help. The concept and five methodological steps in the development of a succesfull trauma system are presented. A good start is definitely a reorganization of existing knowledge on the basis of internationally licesed courses and the adoption of trauma registry as a standard for future discussion. Individual components of the trauma system can not be separately "optimized" so clinical and financial decisions should be planned exclusively on the integral level.
Department for Traumatology and Bone & Joint Surgery, Clinics for Surgery, Clinical Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. Electronic address: tonisav.antoljak@vip.hr.
Tonisav
T
Antoljak
Ivan
I
Dobric
Bore
B
Bakota
Tomislav
T
Zigman
Daniel
D
Rajacic
Tin
T
Ehrenfreund
D017523:Croatia; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing / Q000592:standards; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000592:standards*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D010820:Physicians / Q000592:standards; D012042:Registries; D014194:Traumatology / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards*; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000628:therapy*
Croatia; trauma; trauma care; trauma system