Table of Contents

1. The Comprehensive Trauma Center as an Organization: Basic Concepts from Organizational Theory.- 2. The Need for Comprehensive Trauma Centers: The State of Trauma in the World Today.- 3. Privately Developed Trauma Centers in the United States.- 4. Centers with Affiliations and Centers in Progress.- 5. Private and Not-for-Profit Centers around the World.- 6. Nonresidential Affiliated Centers throughout the World.- 7. Centers Specializing in Trauma and the Workplace.- 8. Hospital-Based Trauma Centers.- 9. Centers for Holocaust Survivors and Their Families.- 10. Centers Designed to Work with Refugees.- 11. Trauma Centers for Children.- 12. Government Funded Trauma Centers.- 13. The Experts View of What Trauma Is and How to Treat It.- 14. Trauma Center Directors Describe the Ideal Trauma Center.- 15. Constructing the Ideal Trauma Center: Reflections, Recommendations, and Realities.- 16. The Hamburg Experience: Providing Services in War-Torn Environments.- References.- Appendixes.- I. Terms and Abbreviations.- II. Trauma Centers and Their Addresses.- III. The Research Protocol.