Tackling the burden of injury in Australasia: developing a binational trauma registry.
Existing trauma registries in Australia and New Zealand play an important role in monitoring the management of injured patients. Over the past decade, such monitoring has been translated into changes in clinical processes and practices. Monitoring and changes have been ad hoc, as there are currently no Australasian benchmarks for "optimal" injury management. A binational trauma registry is urgently needed to benchmark injury management to improve outcomes for injured patients.
Davey
Tamzyn M
TM
Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. t.davey@uq.edu.au
Pollard
Cliff W
CW
Aitken
Leanne M
LM
Fitzgerald
Mark
M
Bellamy
Nicholas
N
Cass
Daniel
D
Danne
Peter D
PD
Griggs
William M
WM
Cameron
Peter A
PA
Atkinson
Robert N
RN
Hamill
James
J
Rao
Sudhakar
S
Richardson
Drew B
DB
O'Connor
Christine
C
D001315:Australia / Q000453:epidemiology; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D009520:New Zealand / Q000453:epidemiology; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D012042:Registries; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy