Translating Battlefield Practices to Disaster Health.
We review aspects of the recently released National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report A National Trauma Care System: Integrating Military and Civilian Trauma Systems to Achieve Zero Preventable Deaths After Injury most relevant to disaster health, particularly the concepts of focused empiricism and building a learning health system. The article references battlefield success utilizing these concepts and the emerging Disaster Research Response Program. We call upon disaster health researchers to apply the report's recommendations to their work. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2017;11:510-511).
1The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine,Inc, and National Center for Disaster Medicine & Public Health,Rockville,Maryland.
Kandra
K
Strauss-Riggs
2MBD,Inc,Washington,DC.
Kevin
K
Yeskey
3National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences,National Institutes of Health,Bethesda,Maryland.
Aubrey
A
Miller
4Disaster Information Management Research Center,National Library of Medicine,Bethesda,Maryland.
Stacey
S
Arnesen
5National Center for Disaster Medicine & Public Health, Rockville, Maryland, and Department of Military and Emergency Medicine,Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences,Bethesda,Maryland.
Craig
C
Goolsby
D054597:Disaster Medicine / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D014175:Translating
focused empiricism; learning health system; military translation; research