Published: June 2017. Next review: 2024.
The trauma process indicators evaluate the care of severely injured patients.
Measures of the performance of the NSW trauma system are required to provide guidance on:
- quality improvement activities
- benchmarking and reporting
- research
- education
- future investment.
These measures are known as trauma process indicators. They are a fundamental part of monitoring the trauma system.
Most of the trauma process indicators have been adapted by the ITIM Data Management Committee based on previous work by Stelfox et al.13
- Scene time (pre-hospital)
- Time to laparotomy
- Time to embolisation
- Unplanned admission to intensive care unit
- Complications
- Unplanned return to the operating room
- Missed injuries
- Death review
- Retrieval team turnaround time
- Medical retrieval notification time
- Intubation in emergency department with Glasgow Coma Scale <9 in head injury
Download the guide to the NSW trauma process indicators (PDF 4.2 MB)
