Construction of clinical database on pelvic trauma life cycle: a preliminary study / 中华创伤杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To construct the clinical database on pelvic trauma life cycle so as to provide reference for epidemiological investigations and development of pelvic damage control plan. Methods The existing pelvic trauma data of the hospital information system was analyzed to discuss the main evaluation indicators and data types at different stages, including basic data, injury severity index, underlying disease, fracture classification, specialist treatment, rehabilitation and follow-up information. Results Based on the V3.0 trauma scoring system, the clinical pelvic trauma ACCESS database was developed. The data of 588 patients with pelvic trauma were collected from November 2007 to May 2009 and preliminarily analyzed. Conclusions Clinical database of pelvic trauma can be used as the specific modules of general network trauma database system and a large-scale, multi-center and standard pelvic trauma database may play an important role in preparation of the prospective damage control plans.