Citation

Nottidge TE, Dim M, Udoinyang CI, Udoh IA. Trop. Doct. 2014; 44(1): 14-18.

Affiliation

Senior Lecturer, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Uyo/University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Nigeria.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0049475513512632

PMID

24231684

Abstract

The Cape Town Trauma Registry (CTTR) was developed as a minimum data set for low-resource settings and was applied in a southern Nigerian tertiary hospital. Based on the outcome of the study, the CTTR was modified to produce the Uyo Trauma Registry. Using the CTTR, data was obtained prospectively from injured patients who presented to the Accident and Emergency Department of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital over a 7 week period in June and July 2012. The final data set was determined based on the ease of capture of each item and its relative importance to injury surveillance. The goal for satisfactory data capture was chosen as ≥80%. The Uyo Trauma Registry has 19 patient-variable items and may be the first locally relevant hospital based injury surveillance tool in Nigeria. The Uyo Trauma Registry has provided the resource constrained setting in Nigeria with a simplified tool in order to sustainably obtain trauma data and thus engage in objective locally relevant efforts at injury prevention and improved care of the injured patient.

Language: en