Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 15 - Mississippi Department of Health
Part 8 - Office of Health Policy and Planning
Subpart 90 - Planning and Resource Development
Chapter 05 - Acute Care Facilities and Services Overview
Section 15-8-90-05-519 - Mississippi Trauma Care System
Section 15-8-90-05-519.04 - Performance Improvement

A systems approach to trauma care provides the best means to protect the public from pre-mature death and prolonged disability. The development of a statewide system of care for the injured must include a mechanism to monitor, measure, assess, and improve the processes and outcome of care. The process must be a continuous, multidisciplinary effort to reduce inappropriate variation in the care of trauma patients and improve the effectiveness of the system and its components, including pre-hospital care (communication, dispatch, medical control, triage, and transport), hospital care, inter-facility management, rehabilitative care, and mass casualty disaster response.

Statewide Performance Improvement (PI) consists of multiple layers of continuous monitoring and evaluation of treatment processes to identify opportunities to optimize care and improve outcomes. The continuous cycle of evaluation extends from the PI programs of EMS providers and hospitals to review committees established at the regional and state levels.

The State Trauma PI Committee is appointed by the MSDH Director of Health Protection. The committee is independent from MTAC and EMSAC. The PI Committee is chaired by the state Trauma System of Care Medical Director. Membership shall include, but may not be limited to, representatives from the following areas:

* Emergency Medicine

* State EMS PI Committee

* Trauma Registry Committee

* One representative from each Trauma Care Region

* Nursing representative from each Trauma Center level

* Tertiary Pediatric Trauma Center

* Trauma Medical Directors from each Level I Trauma Center

The PI Committee establishes specific statewide performance measures. Subject Matter Experts (SME) participate in committee activities appropriate to their expertise. MSDH Division of Trauma provides administrative support to the PI Committee and all meetings of the Committee, PI Committee meetings are by invitation only and are not open to the public.