PMID: 8601862Mar 1, 1996Paper

Linking data from national trauma and rehabilitation registries

The Journal of Trauma
W S CopesB B Hamilton

Abstract

To evaluate te feasibility of retrospectively creating a data base useful in trauma systems evaluations. Records for 375 patients in both the Major Trauma Outcome Study and the Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation were linked to create an injury-through-rehabilitation data base, including patients from four impairment groups: traumatic brain injury (TBI); spinal cord injury --paraplegic complete (SCI-PARA) and quadriplegic complete (SCI-QUAD); and hip fracture (HIP-FX). The average ages (25.1 years SCI-QUAD, 72.6 years HIP-FX); Injury Severity Score (10.2 HIP-FX, 31.7 SCI-PARA); Revised Trauma Score (5.9 TBI, 7.8 HIP-FX); and acute care lengths of stay (13.3 days HIP-FX, 24.2 days TBI) varied substantially over the four groups. On average, patients spent from approximately 20 days (HIP-FX) to nearly 100 days (SCI-QUAD) in rehabilitation. Functional gains during rehabilitation were primarily in motor skills, but TBI patients also made substantial cognitive gains. Nearly 90% of TBI and SCI patients were discharged to their homes; the percentage of HIP-FX patients discharged to their homes, however, was lower (74%). Across all impairment groups, more patients lived with their relatives after rather than before injury. Th...Continue Reading

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