The Tasmanian Emergency Care Outcomes Registry

The purpose and aims of this clinical quality registry are to monitor emergency care processes and outcomes through the provision of timely extraction and analysis of ED clinical data. Conditions observed and exposures will include intubation, procedural sedation, suspected illicit substance misuse, deterioration whilst in the ED requiring a medical activation team call. Quality will be measured by clinical pathways compliance including fractured neck of femur pathway, stroke pathway, chest pain pathway and sepsis pathway. Minimum data set for observational assessment will be vital signs on arrival. Additional observations will be collected depending on area of interest, for example, for intubated patients we will be collecting all observations just prior, during and following intubation. Data from all Tasmanian hospitals from the 1st of January 2016 to the time of recruitment of the first prospective patient, will be collected retrospectively.