Swiss Trauma Registry
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- This is an observational study: the protocol does not assign a study treatment.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Trauma, Multiple, Trauma. Basic parameters: from 16 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Switzerland
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Observational Retrospective and Prospective Registry With Standardized Data Collection on Trauma Treatment in Switzerland
Overview
The Swiss Conference of Cantonal Health Directors has transferred the planning of highly specialized medicine to a specialized body under the direction of the Swiss Academy of Sciences. This specialist body has defined the treatment of critically ill as part of highly specialized medicine and founded the Swiss Trauma Registry at 12 hospitals in Switzerland. The registry is designed to provide a consistent and standardized approach and treatment outcomes in the short and long term quality control and as a basis for planning highly specialized medicine.
Primary outcome measures
- mortality in severely injured patients [Time frame: day of injury until year 5]
- patterns of injuries in severely injured patients [Time frame: day of injury until year 5]
- Duration of primary hospitalisation after initial injury measured by days [Time frame: day of injury until year 5]
- Duration of secondary hospitalisation after initial injury measured by days [Time frame: day of injury until year 5]
- Treatment costs in Swiss Francs [Time frame: day of injury until year 5]
- line of treatments due to the initial injury (kind of treatment) [Time frame: day of injury until year 5]
- line of treatments due to the initial injury (timepoints of treatments) [Time frame: day of injury until year 5]
- Duration of Rehabilitation measured by days [Time frame: day of injury until year 5]
- Duration of incapacity for work measured by days [Time frame: day of injury until year 5]
- diagnostic efforts measured by number and timepoint of imaging [Time frame: day of injury until year 5]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- injury severity code > 16 and 7 or abbreviated injury scale >3 for region of skull and brain
Exclusion criteria
- patients who will transferred in a burn unit
- drowned patients
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
Study locations
Switzerland · 12 centers
- Kantonspital Aarau — Aarau
- University Hospital Switzerland, Traumatology — Basel
- Inselspital Bern — Bern
- Kantonsspital Graubünden — Chur
- University Hospital Geneva — Geneva
- CHUV — Lausanne
- Kantonsspital Luzern — Lucerne
- Ospedale regionale die Lugano — Lugano
- … and 4 more centers
Identifiers
NCT: NCT03526029 · 2013-00331; ch18Jakob2