Hawaii LRB Study : On-Call Crisis In Trauma Care

The Hawaii Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB) has published Report 2 of 2006, a request by the 2005 Hawaii Legislature. This report was prepared in response to House Concurrent Resolution No. 229, S.D. 1, adopted during the Regular Session of 2005, that requested the Legislative Reference Bureau to identify and analyze any appropriate government response to the increasing unavailability of physician specialists for emergency call at trauma centers. "Having more than one cause, the shortage of on-call physician specialists at trauma centers clearly requires more than one solution," the report finds.

On-Call Crisis In Trauma Care: Government Responses
(available in pdf, 516KB, from LRB)

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