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.
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
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
200
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.
Methodist Dallas Medical Center
Dallas, Texas, United States
RECRUITINGcomprehensive data series
To establish a comprehensive data series from observational data to gain a better understanding of the specifics surrounding penetrating trauma and related events
Time frame: 3 years
observational process improvement
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.
Time frame: 3 years
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