ew perspectives in trauma care: effects of centralisation on quality of care
Recruiting
- Conditions
- centralisation, polytrauma care, quality and quantity of trauma care, mixed-methods study
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON21416
- Lead Sponsor
- etwork Acute Care Limburg
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 20
Inclusion Criteria
1. Health care professionals
- core members of the primary trauma care chain (ambulance nurses, MMT staff, nursing centralists ambulance, emergency roon physicians, trauma surgeons, anesthesiologists, rehabilitation physicians)
Exclusion Criteria
2/3. Patient journeys and PROMs
- Age < 18 years
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational non invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Qualitative interviews with health care professionals<br /><br>- Expected positive and negative effects of centralisation of polytrauma care, leading to solutions for bottlenecks <br /><br /><br><br>2. Qualitative interviews with patients<br /><br>- Patients' experience with centralisation of polytrauma care<br /><br /><br><br>3. Quantitative data collection<br /><br>- Distribution of (poly)trauma patients in Limburg, The Netherlands<br /><br>- Patient reported outcome measures (quality of life - EQ5D and SF36)<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 3. Quantitative data collection<br /><br>- Structure indicators (hospital location, availability of operating room, intensive care bed)<br /><br>- Proces indicators (number of polytraumapatients directly presented to the trauma center, number of polytrauma patients)<br /><br>- Outcome indicators (mortality at 30 and 90 days after trauma, duration till first CT scan, duration till first intervention, triage, ambulance response time, duration of transport, number of secundary transports, duration of treatment at emergency department, presence of trauma team, number of intensive care recordings, recording time intensive care and hospital