The NIH-funded project Comparative Assessment for Environments of Trauma Care (CAFE) (1R01GM111324-01A1) aims to develop a web service that allows representatives in interested institutions to pre-assess the organizational structure of their trauma center or trauma system and to learn about possible optimizations.

Users will answer a number of questions about the leadership and governance structure of their trauma center or trauma system. Based on their answers the service will create a graphical representation of the organizational structure. It will be possible for the users to compare their organizational structure to a typical trauma center or trauma system. This comparison will allow the dissemination of the best organizational structures across trauma centers and trauma systems.

A crucial component of this project is to create a shared terminology of trauma systems and trauma centers. It is developed in close collaboration with the American College of Surgeons Committee of Trauma. The terminology will be embedded in a computer-parsable ontology and it will be freely available from the internet.

Collaborators

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Stephen M. Bowman

Domain Expert

Mathias Brochhausen

Principal Investigator/Lead Ontologist

R. Dwayne Dobbins

Project Manager

John Judkins

M.S. Student

Robert T. Maxson

Domain Expert

Rosemary Nabaweesi

Domain Expert

J. Neil Otte

Ontology Expert

Rohit Pradhan

Domain Expert

Nicholas Rogers

Medical Student

Robert Rose

Medical Student

Joseph Utecht

Lead Developer

American College of Surgeons

Maria Alvi

Domain Expert

Jane Ball

Domain Expert

Jean Clemency

Domain Expert

Molly Lozada

Domain Expert

Nels Sanddal

Domain Expert

Robert J Winchell

Domain Expert

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

M. Eduard Tudoreanu

Usability Expert