Optimising care in a Swiss University Emergency Department by implementing a multicentre trauma register (TARN): report on evaluation, costs and benefits of trauma registries.

Maximilian Hartel; Nicole Jordi; Dimitrios-Stergios Evangelopoulos; Rebecca Hasler; Kathrin Dopke; Heinz Zimmermann; Aristomenis K Exadaktylos

doi:10.1136/emj.2009.083030

Optimising care in a Swiss University Emergency Department by implementing a multicentre trauma register (TARN): report on evaluation, costs and benefits of trauma registries.

Maximilian Hartel
Nicole Jordi
Dimitrios-Stergios Evangelopoulos
Rebecca Hasler
Kathrin Dopke
Heinz Zimmermann
Aristomenis K Exadaktylos

Beteiligte Einrichtungen

Klinik und Poliklinik für Unfallchirurgie und Orthopädie

Abstract

Diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to trauma patients are, depending on experience, equipment and different therapeutic doctrines, subject to wide variations. The ability to compare trauma centres using a standardised trauma register helps to reveal unresolved systemic issues and simplifies the quality management in an Emergency Department (ED).

Bibliografische Daten

Originalsprache	Englisch
Aufsatznummer	3
ISSN	1472-0205
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1136/emj.2009.083030
Status	Veröffentlicht - 01.03.2011