Saving A Life Can Come Down To Paperwork And Vehicles

Thirty percent of severely injured patients in Illinois aren’t transferred to a high-level trauma center within two hours of being taken to a hospital, which increases mortality. That’s according to a new study from Northwestern that examines the reasons this is occurring and what can be done to improve coordination and communication between hospitals. Reset sits down with the study’s lead author Dr. Anne Stey of Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine to learn more about the problem and potential solutions. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.