Remarkable gains have been made in global health in the past 25 years, but progress has
not been uniform. Mortality and morbidity from common conditions needing surgery have …

A concerted effort to tackle the global health problem posed by traumatic brain injury (TBI) is
long overdue. TBI is a public health challenge of vast, but insufficiently recognised, …

The American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma’s Advanced Trauma Life Support
Course is currently taught in 50 countries. The 8th edition has been revised following broad …

Despite the importance that is attributed to coping as a factor in psychological and somatic
health outcomes, little is known about actual coping processes, the variables that influence …

In this study we examined the relation between personality factors (mastery and interpersonal
trust), primary appraisal (the stakes a person has in a stressful encounter), secondary …

Confounding is a major source of uneasiness among many who do research on the
relationship between stress and adaptational outcomes such as psychological symptoms and …

Background Relationships between physicians and pharmaceutical, medical device, and
other medically related industries have received considerable attention in recent years. We …

… Gruen and his colleagues from Harborview once again for teaching us all about trauma
systems: in this case, preventable deaths. In San Diego, we saw preventable deaths rate fall …

Severe traumatic brain injury remains a major health-care problem worldwide. Although
major progress has been made in understanding of the pathophysiology of this injury, this has …

Julian Elliott and colleagues discuss how the current inability to keep systematic reviews up-to-date
hampers the translation of knowledge into action. They propose living systematic …