Linking Trauma Registry Patients With Insurance Claims: Creating a Longitudinal Patient Record

Trauma registries and their quality improvement programs only collect data from the acute hospital admission, and no additional information is captured once the patient is discharged. This lack of long-term data limits these programs ’ ability to affect change. The goal of this study was to create a longitudinal patient record by linking trauma registry data with third party payer claims data to allow the tracking of these patients after discharge.

Source: Journal of Surgical Research - December 3, 2023 Category: Surgery Authors: Bryant W. Oliphant, Anne H. Cain-Nielsen, Molly P. Jarman, Naveen F. Sangji, John W. Scott, Scott Regenbogen, Mark R. Hemmila Tags: Healthcare Delivery, Quality, and Safety Source Type: research