The NSW Trauma Registry encourages high standards of both injury prevention and patient care.
It does this by:
- monitoring traumatic injury incidence and causation
- identifying objective and verifiable data on treatment, outcomes and quality of care
- identifying system requirements
- providing annual reporting.
The NSW Trauma Registry incorporates state and federal health data standards, and enables trauma services to directly enter and manage data mandated for the NSW Trauma Minimum Dataset.
Together with reporting tools, the registry provides a comprehensive and supported trauma data collection and reporting system for hospital trauma registries in NSW.
The NSW Trauma registry includes:
- Australia and NSW specific data domains
- Australia data formats
- ICD-10-AM/ACHI/ACS 6th edition data domains12
- data and the algorithm to calculate ISS based on the coded injuries based on the AIS 2005/2008 Update Dictionary - Clarification Document11
- NSW hospital facilities
- specific aspects of the NSW trauma system.
The NSW Trauma Registry was designed as a comprehensive trauma registry that would meet the needs of ITIM as well as the more extensive data requirements of individual hospital trauma registries. Indeed, while ITIM currently mandates a small number of data elements, the registry is capable of recording hundreds of additional data points to support the trauma services.
Hosted securely within NSW Health on GovDC servers, the registry is available to authorised users within the NSW Health network. Network access and access to the registry is strictly monitored, controlled and managed by eHealth in partnership with ITIM. Additional security ensures trauma services staff only view and edit data for their own facility.
History
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2009
NSW Trauma Registry launched
2009 marked the completion of the initial stage of the project. Over the next year other components of the system were put in place, establishing a comprehensive statewide trauma registry and reporting solution accessible at any trauma hospital in NSW.
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2008
Data accumulation
By 2008, the registry held approximately 18,000 records of serious to critically injured people.
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2006
Minimum dataset project
ITIM started the NSW Trauma Registry project, with the goal of providing NSW trauma hospitals with a single standardised trauma registry which would accommodate the current and anticipated trauma data requirements in NSW.
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2002
NSW Trauma Registry was established by ITIM
The registry was purpose built and managed and maintained by ITIM staff, who manually entered records submitted by trauma services staff on behalf of NSW hospital trauma registries.