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- Trauma registries have been established to assist in quality improvement, injury prevention, clinical research, and policy-making, expanding significantly over the past 30 years with many institutions participating in national databases.
- The review aims to outline the evolution, operational aspects, and features of these registries, highlighting their vital role in emergency medicine and trauma studies.
- It also addresses the challenges faced by trauma registries, including inconsistent data quality, lack of long-term outcome tracking, missing prehospital information, and methodological issues that hinder their effectiveness in clinical and epidemiological research.
Article Abstract
Trauma registries have been designed to serve a number of purposes, including quality improvement, injury prevention, clinical research, and policy development. Since their inception over 30 years ago, there are increasingly more institutions with trauma registries, many of which submit data to a national trauma registry. The goal of this review is to describe the history, logistics, and characteristics of trauma registries and their contribution to emergency medicine and trauma research. Discussed in this review are the limitations of trauma registries, such as variability in quality and type of the collected data, absence of data pertaining to long-term and functional outcomes, prehospital information, and complications as well as other methodologic obstacles limiting the utility of registry data in clinical and epidemiologic research.
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