ACSQHC-ARCR-265

The Tasmanian Trauma Service maintains a regional trauma registry as the foundation for a Trauma Quality Improvement Program. The Tasmanian Trauma Registry collects information about all patients admitted to the Royal Hobart Hospital (RHH) with major and minor traumatic injuries. Major Traumatic Injury Inclusions: 

• Injury Severity Score (ISS) greater than 12
• Acute hospital (RHH) death following trauma
• The presentation to the hospital must have occurred within 14 days of sustaining the original injury
• Minor Traumatic Injury Inclusions:
• Received care from the designated trauma bed card at the RHH or received trauma case management for an ISS 12 or less
• The presentation to the RHH must have occurred within 14 days of sustaining the original injury
• An injured person representing to the RHH with a complication from their original injury within 14 days of initial admission.

Key objectives of the Tasmanian Trauma Registry are to monitor the incidence and causation of traumatic injury; identify objective and verifiable data on treatment, outcomes and quality of care; identify trauma risks by analysing injury patterns in the Tasmanian community and advise Government around injury prevention programs; provide data to the Australian and New Zealand Trauma Registry to enable comparative analysis and benchmarking against other trauma hospitals within Australia and New Zealand.