Beyond 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 [7].

Source: Injury - November 13, 2020 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Justin S Hatchimonji, Elinore J Kaufman, Kristen Chreiman, Jordan B Stoecker, Patrick M Reilly, Brian P Smith, Daniel N Holena, Mark J Seamon Source Type: research