Cohort profile: The Trauma Outcomes Project, a prospective study of New Zealanders experiencing major trauma.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are useful for trauma registries interested in monitoring patient outcomes and trauma care quality. PROMs had not previously been collected by the New Zealand Trauma Registry (NZTR). More than 2500 New Zealanders are admitted to hospital for major trauma annually. The Trauma Outcomes Project (TOP) collected PROMs postinjury from three of New Zealand's (NZ's) major trauma regions. This cohort profile paper aims to provide a thorough description of preinjury and 6 month postinjury characteristics of the TOP cohort, including specifically for Māori (Indigenous population in Aotearoa me Te Waipounamu/NZ).

Participants

Between July 2019 and June 2020, 2533 NZ trauma patients were admitted to one of 22 hospitals nationwide for majo

SUBMITTER: Owen HE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10685924 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature