Structured Trauma Quality Improvement Meetings at Four Trauma Centres in India (TQI)
Major Trauma, Injuries Major
About this trial
This is an interventional other trial for Major Trauma focused on measuring Quality improvement, Injury, Injuries
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
All patients presenting to any of the four study sites with a potentially life-threatening or limb-threatening injury. Specifically, all presenting injured patients triaged as "Red" or "Yellow" according to the Australia-India Trauma Systems Collaboration (AITSC) Trauma Triage Protocol, will meet the screening criteria for data collection. Retrospective inclusion in the registry will be continued for all screened patients presenting to any of the included hospitals with injury (including near-drowning) as the primary diagnosis and with at least one of the following criteria:
- Admission to hospital
- Death after triage but before admission
Exclusion Criteria:
The exclusion criteria for the AITSC Trauma Registry are:
- Death at scene
- Alive at triage but not admitted to hospital
- Isolated poisoning
- Isolated burns
- Single digit finger or toe amputations
Sites / Locations
- Vadilal Sarabhai Hospital
- Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital
- Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital
- JPN Apex Trauma Centre at All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
No Intervention
Other
Pre-intervention group
Post-intervention group
All injured patients to the four intervention sites) and allocated to a red (1st) or yellow (2nd) priority triage category will be eligible for inclusion. The Trauma Quality Improvement Meeting (TQIM) checklist will not be introduced during this phase.
All injured patients to the four intervention sites) and allocated to a red (1st) or yellow (2nd) priority triage category will be eligible for inclusion. The Trauma Quality Improvement Meeting (TQIM) checklist will be used at all Trauma Quality Improvement Meetings (TQIMs)