ReviewTrauma surgery & acute care open2020
Maximizing the potential of trauma registries in low-income and middle-income countries.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Pediatric traumatic brain injury prehospital guidelines: a systematic review and appraisal.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2022Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Quality Improvement Processes, Interventions, and Structure in Trauma Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.World journal of surgery · 2021Pooled it
- Improving Trauma Data Quality in Rwanda: A Prospective Assessment of Registry Completeness and Accuracy.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- An open access trauma registry for developing countries: a tested selected minimal dataset with its free database program.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2026Article
- Developing a Trauma System Improvement Program (TSIP) in Bangladesh: findings from a pilot study.BMC emergency medicine · 2026Article
- Trends and levels of the global, regional, and national burden of injuries from 1990 to 2021: findings from the global burden of disease study 2021.Annals of medicine · 2025Observational
- Establishing an Essential Dataset for Trauma Registry in LMICs: Insights From a Delphi Survey.World journal of surgery · 2025Article
- Bridging the data divide: challenges and opportunities for trauma registries in conflict-affected MENA countries: a qualitative analysis of key informant interviews.Conflict and health · 2025Article
- Setting up a comprehensive traffic injuries registry system in hospitals: a qualitative study on barriers and challenges.BMC health services research · 2025Article
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- Qualitative assessment of point of injury to Role 2+ combat casualty care in Ukraine.Trauma surgery & acute care open · 2025Article
- Analysis of road traffic injuries and length of stay at the emergency department among patients in a trauma hospital in Ethiopia.Trauma surgery & acute care open · 2025Article
- Exploring the Long-Term Disability Outcomes in Trauma Patients: Study Protocol.Research square · 2024Article
- A qualitative assessment of Ukraine's trauma system during the Russian conflict: experiences of volunteer healthcare providers.Conflict and health · 2024Article
- Injury epidemiology and emergency department length of stay in trauma hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.PloS one · 2024Article
- Development and User Testing of a Dynamic Tool for Rheumatic Heart Disease Management.Applied clinical informatics · 2023Article
- The Australian Trauma Registry (ATR): a leading clinical quality registry.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2023Review
- Operative Trauma Courses: A Scoping Review to Inform the Development of a Trauma Surgery Course for Low-Resource Settings.World journal of surgery · 2023Article
- Use of a trauma registry to drive improvement in the regional trauma network systems in Hawassa, Ethiopia.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2023Article
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Abstract
Injury is a major global health issue, resulting in millions of deaths every year. For decades, trauma registries have been used in wealthier countries for injury surveillance and clinical governance, but their adoption has lagged in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Paradoxically, LMICs face a disproportionately high burden of injury with few resources available to address this pandemic. Despite these resource constraints, several hospitals and regions in LMICs have managed to develop trauma registries to collect information related to the injury event, process of care, and outcome of the injured patient. While the implementation of these trauma registries is a positive step forward in addressing the injury burden in LMICs, numerous challenges still stand in the way of maximizing the potential of trauma registries to inform injury prevention, mitigation, and improve quality of trauma care. This paper outlines several of these challenges and identifies potential solutions that can be adopted to improve the functionality of trauma registries in resource-poor contexts. Increased recognition and support for trauma registry development and improvement in LMICs is critical to reducing the burden of injury in these settings.
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