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Background: Hospital trauma teams consist of a diverse spectrum of health care professionals who work together to deliver quality care. Although the qualities of a well-performing trauma team are often believed to be self-evident, there is little objective information about the most desirable personal and professional characteristics associated with quality trauma care. The aim of this study was to determine the traits and characteristics deemed of greatest value for a trauma team leader and a trauma team member in the adult trauma care setting. Methods: Semistructured interviews were conducted with trauma team leaders and trauma team members at a tertiary Canadian trauma centre. Standard qualitative research methodology was used. Interviews were recorded, transcribed and analyzed via an inductive analysis approach. Results: Thematic saturation was achieved after 5 interviews, and 6 further interviews were conducted to ensure that a breadth of trauma care disciplines were included. Six attributes were identified to be of greatest value for trauma team leaders: communication, role clarity, experience, anticipation, management and decisiveness. Four attributes were identified to be of greatest value for trauma team members: engagement, efficiency, experience and collaboration. We further characterized the language defining the ranking of performance for each of these attributes. Conclusion: Results of this qualitative study involving an experienced and diverse spectrum of trauma team practitioners provide insight into the characteristics that are critical to establishing a 'good' trauma team. These findings can be used to inform future determinations of the quality of trauma teams, the education of trauma practitioners and continuing medical education training and assessment tools. Contexte: Les equipes de traumatologie des hopitaux sont formees de professionnels de la sante de divers horizons qui travaillent ensemble pour offrir des soins de qualite. Bien que les attributs d'une bonne equipe de traumatologie soient souvent vus comme etant evidents, il existe peu de donnees objectives sur les caracteristiques personnelles et professionnelles les plus fortement associees a des soins traumatologiques de qualite. Cette etude avait pour but de determiner les traits et caracteristiques les plus recherches chez les chefs et les membres d'equipes de traumatologie pour adultes. Methodes: Nous avons mene des entrevues semi-structurees aupres de chefs et de membres d'equipes de traumatologie, dans un centre tertiaire de traumatologie canadien. Une methode de recherche qualitative standard a ete utilisee. Les entrevues ont ete enregistrees et transcrites, puis analysees selon une approche inductive. Resultats: Le seuil de saturation thematique a ete atteint apres 5 entrevues, mais nous avons mene 6 entrevues supplementaires pour garantir une variete dans les disciplines representees. Six attributs ont ete releves pour les chefs d'equipe de traumatologie: communication, clarte du role, experience, anticipation, gestion et esprit de decision. Quatre attributs ont ete releves pour les membres de l'equipe: engagement, efficacite, experience et collaboration. Pour chaque attribut, nous avons caracterise avec precision les termes definissant la qualite des soins prodigues. Conclusion: Les resultats de cette etude qualitative, qui rassemblait des professionnels de la traumatologie experimentes et d'horizons diversifies, mettent en lumiere les caracteristiques essentielles a la mise en place d'une << bonne >> equipe de traumatologie. Ils pourront servir dans l'evaluation des equipes, dans la formation des praticiens et a la creation de cours et d'outils d'evaluation pour l'education medicale continue., Injury is the leading cause of death for young people in both Canada and the United States, and it is a major cause of hospital admissions at all stages of [...]