Citation

Lefering R, Paffrath T. Unfallchirurg 2012; 115(1): 30-32.

Vernacular Title

Versorgungsrealitat auf der Basis der Daten des TraumaRegister DGU(R)

Affiliation

Institut für Forschung in der Operativen Medizin (IFOM), Fakultät für Gesundheit, Universität Witten/Herdecke, Ostmerheimer Straße 200, 51109, Köln, Deutschland, rolf.lefering@uni-wh.de.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s00113-011-2141-4

PMID

22274601

Abstract

The Trauma Registry of the German Society for Trauma Surgery (TR-DGU) has documented diagnostics, treatment and outcome of severely injured patients since 1993. In 2009 it became the obligatory tool for quality assessment in the regional trauma networks (TraumaNetzwerk DGU). During that time period many things changed, and data from the TR-DGU could be used to monitor these changes. For example, the time from accident until hospital admission, which is about 70 min, has not changed in recent years. Conversely, major trends were observed regarding a reduced amount of preclinical volume and, in conscious patients, a lower intubation rate. In the acute care hospital whole-body CT is used in nearly all hospitals and has contributed to the fact that the mortality rate today is 2-3% lower than a decade ago.

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