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NCT Number: NCT02165137

Management of Major Trauma Patients at Aarau Trauma Center - Evaluation of Processes and Patient Outcome

Quality control and improvement project: Assessment and analysis of processes and outcome in trauma emergency room and major trauma patients at the Aarau trauma center (cantonal hospital) with regard to initial emergency management, hospital processes and short- and long-term (1-and 2-year) outcome of patients (subjective and objective). Comparison of processes and outcome pre- and post- project initiative. Benchmarking with the literature and by participation in the German and Swiss Trauma registry each.

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Key information

Conditions

Injury Disease Attributes Emergencies Major Trauma Multiple Trauma Pathologic Processes Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms Trauma Wounds and Injuries

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Aarau Cantonal Hospital

Aarau, Canton of Aargau, 5001, Switzerland

About this study

Registry of all emergency patients arriving at Aarau trauma center following trauma with regard to possibly injury related pre- and inhospital demographic factors, process variables and outcome Parameters.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • major trauma: New Injury Severity Score (NISS) >=8
  • for longer-term outcome: only patients firm in German language and able to respond to the postal questionnaire by themselves

Exclusion criteria

  • no Trauma
  • injury >24h before arrival at Aarau Cantonal Hospital
  • NISS<8
  • for longer-term outcome: patients not firm in German language and not able to respond to the postal questionnaire by themselves (dead, unavailable, refusal to participate, dementia, age<16 years ecc.); a categorising compilation of cases is supposed to exclude any possible study bias

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

  1. emergency room process times

    Time frame: hours (<6)

Secondary outcomes

  1. hospital mortality

    Time frame: 30 days

  2. Euro Quality of Life Group health-related quality of life on five dimensions (EQ-5D)

    Time frame: 1 and 2 year follow-up

    score

  3. Trauma Outcome Profile (TOP)

    Time frame: 1 and 2 year follow-up

    score

  4. Quality of Life after Brain Injury (QOLIBRI)

    Time frame: 1 and 2 year follow-up

    score

  5. medical outcomes study Short Form-36 (SF-36)

    Time frame: 1 and 2 year follow-up

    score

  6. reduced capacity to work

    Time frame: 1 and 2 year outcome

    Value (%);e.g. see Gross T, Attenberger C, Huegli RW, Amsler F. Factors associated with reduced longer-term capacity to work in patients after polytrauma: a Swiss trauma center experience. J Am Coll Surg. 2010 Jul;211(1):81-91

Other outcomes

  1. invalidity

    Time frame: at least 4 year post-injury

    % of disability to work (i.e., basis for resulting amount of insurance pension)

  2. insurance payments

    Time frame: at least 4 years post-injury

    Swiss Francs

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Kantonsspital Aarau

Other

Collaborators

  • Kantonsspital Aarau, Wissenschaftlicher Fond
  • Suva

Registry information

Official study title

Quality Control in the Management of Major Trauma Patients at Aarau Cantonal Hospital - Evaluation of Processes and Patient Outcome

Important dates

Study start
2010
Primary completion
2019
Study completion
2020
First posted
Jun 17, 2014
Registry last updated
Mar 15, 2024

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