Trauma Registrar Council: Sub-Committees


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Data Subcommittee

The purpose of the Data Subcommittee of the American Trauma Registry Council is to address issues related to data, information, and confidentiality. We have developed a confidentiality statement as a guide for registrars to use when there are requests for data from the registry. This statement is useful to protect the patients, the hospital and the registrars. This project showed the vision of this group as the HIPPAA regulations are now being implemented. The project we are currently working on is the development of a data dictionary to provide consistency of data being collected, entered and submitted. This committee has representatives from across the nation and we all bring our ideas and experience with the goal of having a standard, uniform data set with well defined data elements. As we move toward national Trauma System development we need to be consistent with our data to provide timely and accurate information. With this information we can more readily address prevention issues and legislative changes to assist those providing
trauma care for the "neglected disease" of trauma.