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Utilities and Research for Professionals
The fact that trauma systems save lives has been indisputably established. Recent reports, including the Comprehensive Assessment of the Florida Trauma System (Durham,et al Annals of Surgery, June 2006), apply robust statistical analysis to define a reduction of mortality risk somewhere between 15% and 25% for injured patients treated at designated trauma centers. A major component of these studies has been the application of a system of risk stratification using the International Classification Injury Severity Score (ICISS). This methodology computes a probability of survival (Ps) for an individual patient by using ICD-9-CM discharge diagnoses, thereby enabling comparison of trauma centers to non designated trauma centers that do not maintain trauma registries. For a complete support document please Click Here.
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This multi-institutional registry was specifically designed to track the demography, epidemiology, and outcome of injured children in North America. The dataset was designed to provide a "physiologic snapshot" of the injured child on presentation to the contributing institution. It was recognized that such an image would not reflect the effects of intervention or lack thereof. The focus of the data management was primarily to identify the incidence of specific injuries and to define this demographic and epidemiological data in a manner that would facilitate effective systems planning and rehabilitation strategies. The National Pediatric Trauma Registry has been extremely successful and currently contains data on approximately 115,414 injured children entered between April 1, 1985 and March 31, 2002. To download the NPTR research database in MS Access format please Click Here.
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