Establishing trauma databases in underserved regions: a call to action for advancing data-driven surgical quality improvement

Affiliations

¹ Emergency Surgery and Obstetrics Units, Hargele Hospital, Hargele, Ethiopia.
² Department of Medicine, Primary Care and Population Health Division, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
³ Department of Surgery, Trauma and General Surgery Division, Centre for Global Surgery, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology, Muhimbili Orthopedics Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
⁵ Department of Orthopedics, Muhimbili Orthopedics Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
⁶ Department of Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Régional de Saint Louis, Gaston Berger University, Senegal.
⁷ Department of Emergency and Critical Care, Nigist Elleni Mohammed Memorial Hospital, Wachemo University, Hosaena, Ethiopia.

Cherinet D Osebo et al. Int J Surg. 2025.

. 2025 Oct 1;111(10):7369-7374.

doi: 10.1097/JS9.0000000000002881. Epub 2024 Jun 30.

¹ Emergency Surgery and Obstetrics Units, Hargele Hospital, Hargele, Ethiopia.
² Department of Medicine, Primary Care and Population Health Division, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
³ Department of Surgery, Trauma and General Surgery Division, Centre for Global Surgery, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology, Muhimbili Orthopedics Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
⁵ Department of Orthopedics, Muhimbili Orthopedics Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
⁶ Department of Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Régional de Saint Louis, Gaston Berger University, Senegal.
⁷ Department of Emergency and Critical Care, Nigist Elleni Mohammed Memorial Hospital, Wachemo University, Hosaena, Ethiopia.

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Conflict of interest statement

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