Practical Guide to Surgical Data Sets: National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB)

Zain G. Hashmi; Amy H. Kaji; Avery B. Nathens

doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2018.0483

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Practical Guide to Surgical Data Sets: National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB)

Zain G.聽Hashmi,聽MBBS^1,2; Amy H.聽Kaji,聽MD, PhD^3,4; Avery B.聽Nathens,聽MD, MPH, PhD^5,6

Author Affiliations Article Information

¹Center for Surgery and Public Health, Harvard Medical School, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Surgery, Brigham & Women鈥檚 Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
²Department of Surgery, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland
³Department of Emergency Medicine, Harbor-University of California鈥揕os Angeles Medical Center, Torrance
⁴Statistical Editor, JAMA Surgery
⁵Department of Surgery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
⁶American College of Surgeons, Chicago, Illinois

JAMA Surg. 2018;153(9):852-853. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2018.0483

Trauma remains a leading cause of death and disability and accounts for a substantial portion of health care expenditures.¹ Therefore, research to improve trauma care is a leading public health priority.

Spearheading this effort, the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma coordinated a landmark multi-institutional endeavor, the Major Trauma Outcomes Study.² On its completion in 1989, the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma recognized the importance of national trauma data aggregation to inform quality improvement. In 1997, it formed a subcommittee to develop the National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB), a standardized collection of national trauma data (Box). Today, to our knowledge, the NTDB is the world鈥檚 largest trauma data repository, with more than 7.5 million electronic records from more than 900 trauma centers.

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