The use of allied health and law enforcement trauma team registries: Lessons from a novel motorcycle trauma registry and surveillance system in Uganda

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Injury, Occupational Diseases, Poisoning; Mental and Behavioural Disorders; Musculoskeletal Diseases; Nervous System Diseases; Surgery; Orthopaedics

• Registration Number: PACTR202308851460352
• Lead Sponsor: Dr. Herman Lule

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2023-08-11
• Last Update Posted: 4 March 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Complete
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1000

Inclusion Criteria

Study 1:
Medical students
Intern doctors
Intern nurses
In-charges of accident and emergence departments
Regional police officers in charge of traffic and road safety

Study II-IV
Patients who sustain motorcycle related injuries including:
Passengers on motorcycles
Motorcycle riders
Pedestrians hit by motorcycles.
Patient suffering from of motorcycle-motorcycle collisions
Passengers or cyclists suffering from motorcycle-car collisions.

Exclusion Criteria

Study 1:
Medical students who have not started their clinical rotations in surgery at the time of the training.

Studies II-IV:
Pregnant women
Neonates and infants 0-23months
Patients with documented stroke
Mentally incapacitated patients who have no legally authorized representatives to sign an informed consent.
Patients who die before hospital arrival
Patients who die before imaging results are obtained
Patients who are passengers in car at time of accident
Patients who are drivers in a car at time of accident
Elderly above 80 years with increased risk of fragility fractures

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Pre-Hospital interval in Hours;Referral-Exit Interval in Hours for Neurological Injuries

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Morbidity of musculoskeletal injuries based on Trauma Expectation Factor and Trauma Outcome Measure Scores;Morbidity and Mortality of Neurological Injuries based on Glasgow Outcome Scale;Factors associated with unfavorable musculoskeletal trauma outcome measure score.;Factors associated with mortality of neurological injuries.;Knowledge retention from the training based on pre-and post-training mean percentage scores.