Missing patient registrations in the Dutch National Trauma Registry of Southwest Netherlands:Prevalence and epidemiology

Introduction: Health care patient records have been digitalised the past twenty years, and registries have been automated. Missing registrations are common, and can result in selection bias. Objective: To assess the prevalence and characteristics of missed registrations in a Dutch regional trauma registry. Methods: An automatically generated trauma registry export was done for ten out of eleven hospitals in trauma region Southwest Netherlands, between June 1 and August 31, 2020. Second, lists were checked for being falsely flagged as ‘non-trauma’. Finally, a list was generated with trauma tick... Mehr ...