The GOAL-Trauma study will provide a global snapshot of the current mortality rates following trauma laparotomy and insight into the variation seen in the time delays in receiving care, disease and patient factors, and overall patient outcomes
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Any hospital worldwide
Any hospital worldwide that performs emergency trauma surgery will be eligible to participate; a minimum of 1 case must be submitted by the centre during the 30 day study period to be eligible
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All trauma laparotomy patients
We will include patients of all ages who present to hospital with a blunt or penetrating injury and undergo a trauma laparotomy within 5 days of presentation to the treating centre
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Follow up for 30-days
Patients will be followed up from admission to discharge or 30-days post-operatively (whichever comes first)
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Collaborative authorship model
Multiple teams can collect across separate study periods during the study window. All collaborators will be eligible for study authorship under the GOAl-Trauma collaborative
Trauma care is complex
“The GOAL-Trauma study will provide high quality observational multi-centre data on an important topic in trauma care. Identifying key patient and injury factors in patient’s undergoing trauma laparotomy, both pre-hospital and in-hospital, will ensure the primary data required to understand barriers and key target areas to improve overall care and outcomes.”
Supported By...
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Global Anaesthesia, Surgery and Obstetric Collaboration
European Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery
NIHR Global Health Research Group on Acquired Brain & Spine Injury
University of Cambridge
National Trauma Research and Innovation Collaborative
Sociedad Mexicana de Medicina de Emergencia
Cambridge Public Health
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