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. 2021 Feb 23;16(1):6.
doi: 10.1186/s13017-021-00350-7.

Trauma quality indicators: internationally approved core factors for trauma management quality evaluation

Federico Coccolini  1 , Yoram Kluger  2 , Ernest E Moore  3 , Ronald V Maier  4 , Raul Coimbra  5 , Carlos Ordoñez  6 , Rao Ivatury  7 , Andrew W Kirkpatrick  8 , Walter Biffl  9 , Massimo Sartelli  10 , Andreas Hecker  11 , Luca Ansaloni  12 , Ari Leppaniemi  13 , Viktor Reva  14 , Ian Civil  15 , Felipe Vega  16 , Massimo Chiarugi  17 , Alain Chichom-Mefire  18   19 , Boris Sakakushev  20 , Andrew Peitzman  21 , Osvaldo Chiara  22 , Fikri Abu-Zidan  23 , Marc Maegele  24 , Mario Miccoli  25 , Mircea Chirica  26 , Vladimir Khokha  27 , Michael Sugrue  28 , Gustavo P Fraga  29 , Yasuhiro Otomo  30 , Gian Luca Baiocchi  31 , Fausto Catena  32 ; WSES Trauma Quality Indicators Expert Panel
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Trauma quality indicators: internationally approved core factors for trauma management quality evaluation

Federico Coccolini et al. World J Emerg Surg. .

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  • Correction: Trauma quality indicators: internationally approved core factors for trauma management quality evaluation.
    Coccolini F, Kluger Y, Moore EE, Maier RV, Coimbra R, Ordoñez C, Ivatury R, Kirkpatrick AW, Biffl W, Sartelli M, Hecker A, Ansaloni L, Leppaniemi A, Reva V, Civil I, Vega F, Chiarugi M, Chichom-Mefire A, Sakakushev B, Peitzman A, Chiara O, Abu-Zidan F, Maegele M, Miccoli M, Chirica M, Khokha V, Sugrue M, Fraga GP, Otomo Y, Baiocchi GL, Catena F; WSES Trauma Quality Indicators Expert Panel. Coccolini F, et al. World J Emerg Surg. 2025 Apr 7;20(1):29. doi: 10.1186/s13017-025-00577-8. World J Emerg Surg. 2025. PMID: 40197341 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

Abstract

Introduction: Quality in medical care must be measured in order to be improved. Trauma management is part of health care, and by definition, it must be checked constantly. The only way to measure quality and outcomes is to systematically accrue data and analyze them.

Material and methods: A systematic revision of the literature about quality indicators in trauma associated to an international consensus conference RESULTS: An internationally approved base core set of 82 trauma quality indicators was obtained: Indicators were divided into 6 fields: prevention, structure, process, outcome, post-traumatic management, and society integrational effects.

Conclusion: Present trauma quality indicator core set represents the result of an international effort aiming to provide a useful tool in quality evaluation and improvement. Further improvement may only be possible through international trauma registry development. This will allow for huge international data accrual permitting to evaluate results and compare outcomes.

Keywords: Analysis; Data; Morbidity; Mortality; Outcome; Performance; Planning; Product; System; World.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

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Trauma center level distribution of international experts
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Expert distribution according to the World Health Organization (WHO) regions
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Differences in perceiving the importance of the different items for the different answers according to the WHO region
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Centroid distribution of the differences in perceiving the importance of the different items for the different answers according to the WHO region
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