Developing a trauma registry in a middle-income country - Botswana.
Afr J Emerg Med
; 10(Suppl 1): S29-S37, 2020.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Botswana has a large burden of disease from injury, but no trauma registry. This study sought to design and pilot test a trauma registry at two hospitals.METHODS:
A cross sectional study was piloted at a tertiary hospital and a secondary level hospital in Botswana. The study consisted of two stages stage 1 - stakeholders' consultation and trauma registry prototype was designed. Stage 2 consisted of two phases Phase I involved retrospective collection of existing data from existing data collection tools and Phase II collected data prospectively using the proposed trauma registry prototype.RESULTS:
The pre-hospital road traffic accident data are collected using hard copy forms and some of these data were transferred to a stand-alone electronic registry. The hospital phase of road traffic accident data all goes into hard copy files then stored in institutional registry departments. The post-hospital data were also partially stored as hard copies and some data are stored in a stand-alone electronic registry. The demographics, pre-hospital, triage, diagnosis, management and disposition had a high percent variable completion rate with no significant difference between phases I and II. However, the primary survey variables in Phase I had a low percent variable completion rate which was significantly different from the high completion rates in phase II at both hospitals. A similar picture was observed for the secondary survey at both hospitals.CONCLUSION:
Electronic trauma registries are feasible and data completion rate is high when using the electronic data registry as opposed to data collected using the existing paper-based data collection tools.
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MEDLINE
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Observational_studies
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En
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Afr J Emerg Med
Ano de publicação:
2020
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Article