Clinical trial NCT02165137: Management of Major Trauma Patients at Aarau Trauma Center - Evaluation of Processes and Patient Outcome
Official title: Quality Control in the Management of Major Trauma Patients at Aarau Cantonal Hospital - Evaluation of Processes and Patient Outcome
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Injury
Trauma
Major Trauma
Multiple Trauma
Keywords: trauma
major trauma
multiple trauma
outcome
quality
process Management
emergency room
trauma center
Lead sponsor: Kantonsspital Aarau
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Kantonsspital Aarau, Wissenschaftlicher Fond
name: Suva
First posted: 2014-06-17
Enrollment: 3800
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: OTHER
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: All emergency patients treated at Aarau Cantonal Hospital following trauma (\<24h postinjury) with suspected major trama

Brief summary: Quality control and improvement project: Assessment and analysis of processes and outcome in trauma emergency room and major trauma patients at the Aarau trauma center (cantonal hospital) with regard to initial emergency management, hospital processes and short- and long-term (1-and 2-year) outcome of patients (subjective and objective). Comparison of processes and outcome pre- and post- project initiative. Benchmarking with the literature and by participation in the German and Swiss Trauma registry each.

Detailed description: Registry of all emergency patients arriving at Aarau trauma center following trauma with regard to possibly injury related pre- and inhospital demographic factors, process variables and outcome Parameters.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* major trauma: New Injury Severity Score (NISS) \>=8
* for longer-term outcome: only patients firm in German language and able to respond to the postal questionnaire by themselves

Exclusion Criteria:

* no Trauma
* injury \>24h before arrival at Aarau Cantonal Hospital
* NISS\<8
* for longer-term outcome: patients not firm in German language and not able to respond to the postal questionnaire by themselves (dead, unavailable, refusal to participate, dementia, age\<16 years ecc.); a categorising compilation of cases is supposed to exclude any possible study bias

Primary outcomes:
measure: emergency room process times
timeFrame: hours (<6)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: hospital mortality
timeFrame: 30 days
measure: Euro Quality of Life Group health-related quality of life on five dimensions (EQ-5D)
timeFrame: 1 and 2 year follow-up
measure: Trauma Outcome Profile (TOP)
timeFrame: 1 and 2 year follow-up
measure: Quality of Life after Brain Injury (QOLIBRI)
timeFrame: 1 and 2 year follow-up
measure: medical outcomes study Short Form-36 (SF-36)
timeFrame: 1 and 2 year follow-up
measure: reduced capacity to work
timeFrame: 1 and 2 year outcome
Other outcomes:
measure: invalidity
timeFrame: at least 4 year post-injury
measure: insurance payments
timeFrame: at least 4 years post-injury
Locations:
city: Aarau
country: Switzerland
facility: Aarau Cantonal Hospital
state: Aargau
Study officials:
affiliation: Aarau Cantonal Hospital
name: Thomas Gross, MD, Prof.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Gross T, Amsler F. Prevalence and incidence of longer term pain in survivors of polytrauma. Surgery. 2011 Nov;150(5):985-95. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2011.04.003. Epub 2011 Jun 15.
citation: Attenberger C, Amsler F, Gross T. Clinical evaluation of the Trauma Outcome Profile (TOP) in the longer-term follow-up of polytrauma patients. Injury. 2012 Sep;43(9):1566-74. doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2011.01.002. Epub 2011 Jan 20.
citation: Gross T, Attenberger C, Huegli RW, Amsler F. Factors associated with reduced longer-term capacity to work in patients after polytrauma: a Swiss trauma center experience. J Am Coll Surg. 2010 Jul;211(1):81-91. doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2010.02.042. Epub 2010 May 15.
citation: Fueglistaler P, Amsler F, Schuepp M, Fueglistaler-Montali I, Attenberger C, Pargger H, Jacob AL, Gross T. Prognostic value of Sequential Organ Failure Assessment and Simplified Acute Physiology II Score compared with trauma scores in the outcome of multiple-trauma patients. Am J Surg. 2010 Aug;200(2):204-14. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2009.08.035. Epub 2010 Mar 15.
citation: Fuglistaler-Montali I, Attenberger C, Fuglistaler P, Jacob AL, Amsler F, Gross T. In search of benchmarking for mortality following multiple trauma: a Swiss trauma center experience. World J Surg. 2009 Nov;33(11):2477-89. doi: 10.1007/s00268-009-0193-1.
citation: Gross T, Schuepp M, Attenberger C, Pargger H, Amsler F. Outcome in polytraumatized patients with and without brain injury. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2012 Oct;56(9):1163-74. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2012.02724.x. Epub 2012 Jun 26.
citation: Gross T, Morell S, Scholz SM, Amsler F. The capacity of baseline patient, injury, treatment and outcome data to predict reduced capacity to work and accident insurer costs - a Swiss prospective 4-year longitudinal trauma centre evaluation. Swiss Med Wkly. 2019 Dec 17;149:w20144. doi: 10.4414/smw.2019.20144. eCollection 2019 Dec 16.
citation: Gross T, Morell S, Amsler F. To What Extent Are Main Accident-Insurer Cases Representative of All Significantly Injured? A Swiss Monocenter Perspective. J Insur Med. 2019;48(1):65-78. doi: 10.17849/insm-48-1-1-14.1. Epub 2019 Apr 24.
citation: Gross T, Morell S, Amsler F. Gender-Specific Improvements in Outcome 1 and 2 Years After Major Trauma. J Surg Res. 2019 Mar;235:459-469. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2018.10.024. Epub 2018 Nov 21.
citation: Gross T, Braken P, Amsler F. Trauma center need: the American College of Surgeons' definition in contrast to Swiss highly specialized medicine regulations-a Swiss trauma center perspective. Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg. 2020 Apr;46(2):397-406. doi: 10.1007/s00068-018-1027-3. Epub 2018 Oct 13.
citation: Born K, Amsler F, Gross T. Prospective evaluation of the Quality of Life after Brain Injury (QOLIBRI) score: minor differences in patients with major versus no or mild traumatic brain injury at one-year follow up. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2018 Jul 9;16(1):136. doi: 10.1186/s12955-018-0966-z.
citation: Gross T, Amsler F. One-year outcome following brain injury: a comparison of younger versus elderly major trauma patients. Arch Orthop Trauma Surg. 2018 Oct;138(10):1375-1387. doi: 10.1007/s00402-018-2974-1. Epub 2018 Jun 11.
citation: Gross T, Morell S, Amsler F. Longer-term quality of life following major trauma: age only significantly affects outcome after the age of 80 years. Clin Interv Aging. 2018 Apr 30;13:773-785. doi: 10.2147/CIA.S158344. eCollection 2018.
citation: Braken P, Amsler F, Gross T. Simple modification of trauma mechanism alarm criteria published for the TraumaNetwork DGU(R) may significantly improve overtriage - a cross sectional study. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. 2018 Apr 24;26(1):32. doi: 10.1186/s13049-018-0498-x.
citation: Bundi M, Meier L, Amsler F, Gross T. [Impact of weather, time of day and season on the admission and outcome of major trauma patients]. Unfallchirurg. 2018 Jan;121(1):10-19. doi: 10.1007/s00113-016-0267-0. German.
citation: Gross T, Amsler F. [Long-term outcome following multiple trauma in working age : A prospective study in a Swiss trauma center]. Unfallchirurg. 2016 Nov;119(11):921-928. doi: 10.1007/s00113-014-2720-2. German.
citation: Gross T, Amsler F. [Emergency room and major trauma treatment is a "loss-making business" : A Swiss trauma center experience with current DRG reimbursement]. Unfallchirurg. 2021 Sep;124(9):747-754. doi: 10.1007/s00113-020-00937-w. Epub 2020 Dec 18. German.
citation: Walkner S, Amsler F, Gross T. [How often is a chest tube needed following thoracic trauma in the severely injured-and when is more needed? : Data from a Swiss trauma center for planning of resources and surgical training]. Chirurg. 2021 Aug;92(8):721-728. doi: 10.1007/s00104-020-01292-7. German.
citation: Gross T, Morell S, Amsler F. Medically graded reduced capacity to work (RCW) following significant injury as explained by patient related outcome measures (PROMs): A prospective trauma center evaluation. Disabil Health J. 2021 Oct;14(4):101114. doi: 10.1016/j.dhjo.2021.101114. Epub 2021 May 10.
citation: Gross T, Amsler F. Main factors predicting somatic, psychological, and cognitive patient outcomes after significant injury: a pilot study of a simple prognostic tool. BJS Open. 2021 Nov 9;5(6):zrab109. doi: 10.1093/bjsopen/zrab109.
citation: Zeindler M, Amsler F, Gross T. Comparative analysis of MGAP, GAP, and RISC2 as predictors of patient outcome and emergency interventional need in emergency room treatment of the injured. Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg. 2021 Dec;47(6):2017-2027. doi: 10.1007/s00068-020-01361-w. Epub 2020 Apr 13.
citation: Fiumedinisi FA, Amsler F, Gross T. Short-term outcome following significant trauma: increasing age per se has only a relatively low impact. Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg. 2021 Dec;47(6):1979-1992. doi: 10.1007/s00068-020-01357-6. Epub 2020 Apr 16.
citation: Magyar CTJ, Maeder F, Diepers M, Amsler F, Gross T. Detailed information gain and therapeutic impact of whole body computed tomography supplementary to conventional radiological diagnostics in blunt trauma emergency treatment: a consecutive trauma centre evaluation. Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg. 2022 Apr;48(2):921-931. doi: 10.1007/s00068-020-01502-1. Epub 2020 Sep 30.