A systems approach to monitoring trauma system performance

With the goal to provide the basis for future analytic studies we established a set of equations using integral calculus that could be used to monitor whole-of-system effectiveness of trauma systems. We report, for a given external cause category (ie road traffic injury), the descriptive epidemiology of trauma in all six states of Australia from 2000 to 2015, to demonstrate time trends in severe injury and deaths in the context of changes to societal level factors observed in the pre injury, acute care and rehabilitation environments.

• Record URL:
  • http://acrs.org.au/publications/acrs-conference-papers/acrs-database/
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Extended abstract only
• Authors:
  • McClure, R
  • Thompson, J
  • Hassani-Mahmooei, B
• Conference:
  • Australasian Road Safety Conference, 2016, Canberra, ACT, Australia
• Publication Date: 2016-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 2p
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the 2016 Australasian Road Safety Conference, 6-8 September, Canberra, Australia

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data analysis; Evaluation; Health; Injuries; Medical treatment; Surveillance
• Uncontrolled Terms: Safe systems (road users)
• Geographic Terms: Australia
• ATRI Terms: Data analysis; Evaluation; Health; Injury; Medical treatment
• ITRD Terms: 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 1602: Fatality; 2154: Medical aspects
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors; I84: Personal Injuries;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01617935
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Nov 28 2016 2:34PM