Montana Code 50-6-404. Duties of trauma care committee
50-6-404. Duties of trauma care committee. The trauma care committee provided for in 2-15-2216 shall:
Terms Used In Montana Code 50-6-404
- 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
- Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
- 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)provide recommendations and guidance to the department concerning:
(a)trauma care, including suggestions for changes to the statewide trauma care system;
(b)the implementation of a hospital data collection system; and
(c)the design and implementation of a statewide and regional quality improvement system for trauma care that considers the standards recommended by the American college of surgeons and an accrediting entity approved by the U.S. centers for medicare and medicaid services;
(2)assist the department in conducting statewide quality improvement and peer review functions by regularly analyzing the effect of the statewide trauma care system on patient care, morbidity, and mortality; and
(3)provide recommendations to and oversight and coordination of the activities of the regional trauma care advisory committees.