NCT06136273

Penetrating Trauma Registry and Open Source Data

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 200 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Methodist Health System · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Penetrating injuries comprise roughly 30% of Methodist Health System (MHS) trauma patients. Firearm-related events have become more prevalent in the past few years. Active shooter events, mass casualties, assaults, and homicide are more commonplace which leads to an increase of trauma patients needing management of penetrating injuries.

Detailed description

Penetrating injuries comprise roughly 30% of Methodist Health System (MHS) trauma patients. Firearm-related events have become more prevalent in the past few years . Active shooter events, mass casualties, assaults, and homicide are more commonplace which leads to an increase of trauma patients needing management of penetrating injuries. On average, penetrating traumas only make up 14% of comparable center patient volumes. In spring 2022, we also were ranked 3/10 for our penetrating trauma outcomes with lower than expected mortality (TQIP Benchmarking Report). Together, as a Level 1 trauma center with above average penetrating injury volume we must take efforts to best understand the opportunities for our patients and disseminate those observations to the trauma community

Conditions

• Penetrating Trauma Registry and Open Source Data

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Treatment measures and intervention strategies	To conduct observational process improvement and hypothesis-deriving studies related to penetrating traumatic injuries using data from the Methodist trauma registry and open source data repositories.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-08-15
• Primary completion: 2025-08-19
• Completion: 2025-08-19
• First posted: 2023-11-18
• Last updated: 2023-11-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States