Abstract
Background Trauma is a leading cause of death and disability in England and Wales, with 16,000 injury deaths per year. High estimates of preventable death rates have renewed the impetus for national regionalisation of major trauma to specialist centres. We hypothesized that the institution of a specialist multidisciplinary trauma service and performance improvement programme had resulted in significant improvements in outcomes in excess of any observed national changes.
Highlights
Trauma is a leading cause of death and disability in England and Wales, with 16,000 injury deaths per year
We hypothesized that the institution of a specialist multidisciplinary trauma service and performance improvement programme had resulted in significant improvements in outcomes in excess of any observed national changes
This study was a comparative analysis of data from 2000– 2005 for the Royal London Hospital (RLH) trauma registry and the Trauma Audit & Research Network for England and Wales
Summary
Ross A Davenport*, Nigel Tai, Anita West, Omar Bouamra, Christopher Aylwin, Maralyn Woodford, Ann McGinley, Fiona Lecky, Michael S Walsh and Karim Brohi. Address: Trauma Clinical Academic Unit, Barts and the London NHS Trust and Queen Mary, University of London, 2nd Floor Front Block, Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London E1 1BB, UK. Published: 24 February 2009 Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009, 17(Suppl 1):O3 doi:10.1186/1757-7241-17-S1-O3. The Third Annual London Trauma Conference Hans-Morten Lossius, David Lockey, Per Bredmose and Kjetil G Ringdal The Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation supported publication of this supplement Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1757-7241-17-S1-info.pdf
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