Systems Engineering to Improve Traumatic Brain Injury Care in the Military Health System

David Butler, Jessica Buono, Frederick Erdtmann, Proctor Reid, Editors; Workshop Steering Commitee on Systems Engineering Health Care: Tools and Technologies to Maximize the Effectiveness of medical Mission Support to DOD

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Summary; 3 1 Introduction; 4 2 Medical Aspects of Traumatic Brain Injury--Robert Labutta; 5 3 Traumatic Brain Injury and the Military Health System--Michael S. Jaffee; 6 4 Examples of Operational Systems Engineering Applications Relevant to Traumatic Brain Injury Care--William P. Pierskalla; 7 5 Case Study Vanderbilt's Journey Toward System-Supported Practice--William W. Stead; 8 6 Suggestions for Analysis Plans by Working Groups; 9 Appendix A: Biographical Information; 10 Appendix B: Issues Raised by Stakeholders about the Military Care of Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury; 11 Appendix C: Operational Systems Engineering Applications Based on Issues Raised by TBI Stakeholders; 12 Appendix D: National Academy of Engineering/Institute of Medicine Preliminary Information-Gathering Meeting: TBI Care System Mapping; 13 Appendix E: Workshop Agenda; 14 Appendix F: Workshop Attendees; 15 Appendix G: Working Groups; 16 Appendix H: Definitions and Examples of Operational Systems Engineering Tools and Concepts