Comparison of registry and government evaluation data to ascertain severe trauma cases in Japan.

ABSTRACT: Aims:Accurate evaluation of health care quality requires high-quality data, and case ascertainment (confirming eligible cases and deaths) is a foundation for accurate data collection. This study examined the accuracy of case ascertainment from two Japanese data sources. Methods:Using hospital-level data, we investigated the concordance in ascertaining trauma cases between a nationwide trauma registry (the Japan Trauma Data Bank) and annual government evaluations of tertiary hospitals between April 2012 and March 2013. We compared the median values for trauma case volumes, numbers of deaths, and case fatality rates from both data sources, and also evaluated the variability in discrepancies for the intrahospital differences of these outcomes. Results:The analyses included 136 hospitals. In t

SUBMITTER: Nakahara S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5649299 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature