1obeyond morbidity and mortality: the practicality of measuring patient-reported outcomes in trauma

Over the last 50 years, survival in trauma patients has increased significantly, [1, 2] such that over 90% survive to discharge. [3] This improvement, though, has resulted in a larger population of patients facing post-discharge physical and mental impairments after injury. [4, 5] Yet, outcomes are generally only tracked to hospital discharge and are often focused solely on mortality. Despite a specific call to collect “comprehensive” data from the point of injury to societal re-entry in the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Zero Preventable Deaths report, [6] to date, data collection after trauma seldom moves beyond the acute phase of care.
Source: Injury - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Source Type: research