Rogaland Trauma System Study (RTSS)

Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation

Status: Completed

Conditions: Trauma

Treatments: Other: Trauma patients

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00876564

2009/228-CAG(REK)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to improve performance, Stavanger University Hospital (SUH) reorganized key system structures and introduced in 2009 mandatory documentation of field Revised Trauma Score on trauma patients, tiered trauma team activation and new guidelines for field triage. Through a before and after study, the investigators aim to measure how the quality improvement initiative will influence structure, process and outcomes variables.

Enrollment: 1,812 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Included in trauma registry

Exclusion criteria

• Excluded from trauma registry

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,812 participants in 1 patient group

Trauma patients

Other group

Description:

Included in trauma registry

Treatment:

Other: Trauma patients