Population Access to US Trauma Centers and Teletrauma-Using Emergency Departments

Zain G Hashmi; Russell Griffin; Janice A Espinola; Ashley F Sullivan; Krislyn M Boggs; Maeve Swanton; Molly P Jarman; Jan O Jansen; Jeffrey D Kerby; Carlos A Camargo Jr

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.56958

Population Access to US Trauma Centers and Teletrauma-Using Emergency Departments

JAMA Netw Open. 2026 Feb 2;9(2):e2556958. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.56958.

Authors

Zain G Hashmi^{1

2}, Russell Griffin², Janice A Espinola³, Ashley F Sullivan³, Krislyn M Boggs³, Maeve Swanton³, Molly P Jarman⁴, Jan O Jansen^{1

2}, Jeffrey D Kerby^{1

2}, Carlos A Camargo Jr^{3

5}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham.
² Center for Injury Science, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
⁴ Center for Surgery and Public Health and Department of Surgery Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁵ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

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Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study determines the additional population access to trauma care expertise provided by telehealth for trauma in emergency departments and provides updated national estimates of trauma center access.