A trauma network with centralized and local health care structures: Evaluating the effectiveness of the first certified Trauma Network of the German Society of Trauma Surgery

• Antonio Ernstberger ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: toni.ernstberger@ukr.de

  Affiliation Department of Trauma Surgery, University Medical Center Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6518-147X

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• Michael Koller,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Clinical Studies, University Medical Center Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

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• Florian Zeman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Clinical Studies, University Medical Center Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

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• Maximilian Kerschbaum,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Trauma Surgery, University Medical Center Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

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• Franz Hilber,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Trauma Surgery, University Medical Center Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

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• Eva Diepold,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Trauma Surgery, University Medical Center Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

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• Julika Loss,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

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• Tanja Herbst,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Trauma Surgery, University Medical Center Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

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• Michael Nerlich,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Trauma Surgery, University Medical Center Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

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• Trauma Centers of the Trauma Network of Eastern Bavaria (TraumaNetzwerk Ostbayern − TNO)

  ¶Membership of the Trauma Network of Eastern Bavaria is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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