Evaluating Staffing Guidelines Using Trauma Volume by Season, Day, and Time of Day at a Level 1 Trauma Center in Rural Appalachia.

Background Trauma is regarded as randomly occurring, but patterns exist for trauma volume which are useful in staffing guidelines and resource allocation. Literature on trauma admissions volume has been centered around geographically/climatically diverse centers and has often not considered many different temporal factors at once. Additionally, studies on trauma volume and staffing centered around rural or southern Trauma 1 centers were largely absent in the literature.