We manage the collection of data about moderately to critically injured people admitted to designated trauma services in NSW.
Data collected about these patients is held securely in the NSW Trauma Registry. This data is used to monitor the effectiveness of the NSW trauma system response to these patients.
Analysis of collected data assists ITIM to assess:
- how well the NSW trauma system responds to patients, from the time of injury and the provision of pre-hospital services, through to in-hospital services provided by a trauma service
- whether the system is working as it should
- whether the right patients get to the right hospitals in a timely manner
- the nature of injuries sustained by patients
- how those injuries occurred.
Our analysis contributes to safety and injury prevention efforts. It helps other agencies concerned with minimising the likelihood and effects of traumatic injury.
Data from the NSW Trauma Minimum Dataset is used to:
- provide advice and feedback to clinicians and other stakeholders
- enable research into patterns of service demand, staffing and clinical practice
- support benchmarking and performance improvement activities.
This data is also used by other NSW government agencies, such as Transport NSW. The NSW Trauma Registry feeds into the Australia New Zealand Trauma Registry.
