Do you have trouble keeping up with your trauma performance improvement (PI) workload? If so, one of the best things you can do is create a management dashboard that helps you organize your PI tasks and monitor PI activities. The key is learning how to build useful trauma registry reports. This article was developed by…
Author: Craig Rees
Every trauma center must create a process for monitoring the validity of trauma registry data. In most centers, the focus is on retrospective review: periodically re-abstracting a sample of charts to check inter-rater reliability (IRR). In fact, the ACS Committee on Trauma highlights this approach in Resources for Optimal Care of the Injured Patient. This…
High-quality data is essential to running a trauma center. While data quality depends on many factors, well-trained trauma registrars play a critical role. In my experience, the best registrars are the ones who have learned the unique thought processes of effective data abstraction. These thought processes take some time to master, but understanding the basics…