The ABCDE of Dutch trauma system performance

Trauma registries have been established to collect comprehensive data for quality assessment, improvement, and research purposes. Trauma registries document a range of information on injured patients such as demographics, injury details, pre-hospital care, hospital presentation, interventions, and outcomes. The Dutch Nationwide Trauma Registry is an all-inclusive registry meaning all acutely admitted trauma patients are included. This fundamental difference compared to other national trauma registries, described and analyzed in this thesis, provides the opportunity to assess the total burden o... Mehr ...