Omar A Rokayak, Daniel T Lammers, Emily W Baird, John B Holcomb, Jan O Jansen, Daniel B Cox, Jon P Winkler, Richard D Betzold, Nathan R Manley, D Marc Northern, James K Wright, John Dorsch, Jeffrey D Kerby
BACKGROUND: At the University of X at X (UXX), a multi-tiered military-civilian partnership (MCP) has evolved since 2006. We aimed to outline this model to facilitate potential replication nationally. METHODS: We performed a comprehensive review of the partnership between UXX, the United States Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), and the Department of Defense (DoD) reviewing key documents and conducting interviews with providers. As a purely descriptive study, this project did not involve any patient data acquisition or analysis and therefore was exempt from Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval per institutional policy...
May 15, 2023: Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery