Developing a Trauma Registry for the Emergency Department of a Tertiary Care Hospital in Egypt: A Step Toward Success

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Abstract Background: Trauma continues to be a common problem affecting global healthcare systems. Accordingly, different types of trauma have been considered major causes of morbidity and mortality with approximately 5 million deaths per year. Road traffic injuries, in particular, have been recognized by the World Health Organization as the sixth leading cause of death in the eastern Mediterranean region. Developed countries have realized the importance of implementing registries across all healthcare systems in order to improve service quality. Unfortunately, Egypt has yet to establish a national trauma registry in its hospitals. Although data banks have been available in a few hospitals, they have been inconsistent. Purpose: The present study aimed at developing a trauma registry for a major tertiary hospital in Cairo. Methods: To this end, data from 202 patients admitted to the emergency department of Ain Shams University Hospital due to trauma were collected. Procedures and actions used were then described to create a trauma registry from January to December 2017. Results: The collected data were statistically analyzed, after which the epidemiological distribution of the trauma patients was described. Accordingly, our results showed that among the included patients, 65% were men, while most were single, illiterate, and unemployed. Thereafter, statistics regarding trauma circumstances were generated. In conclusion, the present study found that hospital trauma registries can be established, are essential for improving the quality of healthcare services, and should be utilized ubiquitously throughout the country’s hospitals in order to establish a national registry.

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