Penetrating Trauma Registry and Open Source Data
Conditions
Keywords
Trauma
Brief summary
Penetrating injuries comprise roughly 30% of Methodist Health System (MHS) trauma patients. Firearm-related events have become more prevalent in the past few years. Active shooter events, mass casualties, assaults, and homicide are more commonplace which leads to an increase of trauma patients needing management of penetrating injuries.
Detailed description
Penetrating injuries comprise roughly 30% of Methodist Health System (MHS) trauma patients. Firearm-related events have become more prevalent in the past few years . Active shooter events, mass casualties, assaults, and homicide are more commonplace which leads to an increase of trauma patients needing management of penetrating injuries. On average, penetrating traumas only make up 14% of comparable center patient volumes. In spring 2022, we also were ranked 3/10 for our penetrating trauma outcomes with lower than expected mortality (TQIP Benchmarking Report). Together, as a Level 1 trauma center with above average penetrating injury volume we must take efforts to best understand the opportunities for our patients and disseminate those observations to the trauma community
Interventions
BEHAVIORALTreatment measures and intervention strategies
To conduct observational process improvement and hypothesis-deriving studies related to penetrating traumatic injuries using data from the Methodist trauma registry and open source data repositories.
Sponsors
Methodist Health System
Study design
Observational model
CASE_CONTROL
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
16 Years to 75 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* • Aged 16 years or older (National Trauma Data Standard for adult) * Penetrating injury or intent to cause penetrating injury
Exclusion criteria
* • Aged 15 years or younger * Prisoners, pregnant persons, or other protected population * Not involved in penetrating trauma
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| comprehensive data series | 3 years | To establish a comprehensive data series from observational data to gain a better understanding of the specifics surrounding penetrating trauma and related events |
| observational process improvement | 3 years | To conduct observational process improvement and hypothesis-deriving studies related to penetrating traumatic injuries using data from the Methodist trauma registry and open source data repositories. |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed