TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Developing a trauma registry in a middle-income country - Botswana
JO  - African journal of emergency medicine
A1  - Motsumi, Mpapho Joseph
A1  - Mashalla, Yohana
A1  - Sebego, Miriam
A1  - Ho-Foster, Ari
A1  - Motshome, Paul
A1  - Mokokwe, Lebogang
A1  - Mmalane, Mompati
A1  - Montshiwa, Thapelo
SP  - S29
EP  - S37
VL  - 10
IS  - Suppl 1
N2  - BACKGROUND: Botswana has a large burden of disease from injury, but no trauma registry. This study sought to design and pilot test a trauma registry at two hospitals.     Methods: A cross sectional study was piloted at a tertiary hospital and a secondary level hospital in Botswana. The study consisted of two stages: stage 1 - stakeholders' consultation and trauma registry prototype was designed. Stage 2 consisted of two phases: Phase I involved retrospective collection of existing data from existing data collection tools and Phase II collected data prospectively using the proposed trauma registry prototype.     Results: The pre-hospital road traffic accident data are collected using hard copy forms and some of these data were transferred to a stand-alone electronic registry. The hospital phase of road traffic accident data all goes into hard copy files then stored in institutional registry departments. The post-hospital data were also partially stored as hard copies and some data are stored in a stand-alone electronic registry. The demographics, pre-hospital, triage, diagnosis, management and disposition had a high percent variable completion rate with no significant difference between phases I and II. However, the primary survey variables in Phase I had a low percent variable completion rate which was significantly different from the high completion rates in phase II at both hospitals. A similar picture was observed for the secondary survey at both hospitals.     Conclusion: Electronic trauma registries are feasible and data completion rate is high when using the electronic data registry as opposed to data collected using the existing paper-based data collection tools.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2211-419X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.afjem.2020.06.011
ID  - ref1
ER  -