Excellent agreement of Norwegian trauma registry data compared to corresponding data in electronic patient records.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Norwegian Trauma Registry (NTR) is designed to monitor and improve the quality and outcome of trauma care delivered by Norwegian trauma hospitals. Patient care is evaluated through specific quality indicators, which are constructed of variables reported to the registry by certified registrars. Having high-quality data recorded in the registry is essential for the validity, trust and use of data. This study aims to perform a data quality check of a subset of core data elements in the registry by assessing agreement between data in the NTR and corresponding data in electronic patient records (EPRs).

Methods

We validated 49 of the 118 variables registered in the NTR by comparing those with the corresponding ones in electronic patient records for 180 patients with

SUBMITTER: Naberezhneva N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10521548 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature