Lola Sikora, Trauma Program Manager, Royal Perth Hospital, lola.sikora@health.wa.gov.au
The WA State Trauma Registry at Royal Perth Hospital (RPH) has been collecting data on trauma patients since August 1994 and the database now contains more than 110,000 trauma admissions. For the purposes of the Registry, trauma is defined as “an injury or wound resulting from an external force” (Miller and Keane, 1983).
The criteria for inclusion into the registry are:
- All trauma patients who present to RPH for treatment within 7 days of their date of trauma and who were hospitalised for greater than 24 hours at RPH.
- All trauma-related deaths at RPH regardless of hospital length of stay.
- Patients who have suffered the effects of poisoning and drug overdose are excluded from the registry.
The Registry population is divided into major and minor trauma admissions according to the Injury Severity Score (ISS). Major trauma admissions are those patients who have an ISS of greater than 15. An extensive dataset is collected on these patients, from the time of trauma to discharge from RPH, including pre RPH treatment.
Minor trauma admissions are those patients who meet the registry inclusion criteria and have an ISS of less than 16. A limited dataset is collected on these patients.
From January 2017, a moderate dataset on patients with an ISS >12 and <16 is now collected, in order to meet the reporting requirements of the Australian Trauma Registry.
- Reported in Annual Report
- Shared with clinicians
- Shared with hospital executive
- Injury prevention reports
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Western Australia
- Fiona Stanley Hospital
- Joondalup Health Campus
- Perth Children's Hospital
- Royal Perth Hospital
- Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
- St John of God Midland Hospital
An automated data collection process utilising administrative (ICD-10) data will soon be implemented in order to capture all Western Australian trauma admissions that do not attend hospitals participating in trauma registries.