Goal Trauma

The GOAL-Trauma study conducted a global snapshot of patients who underwent a trauma laparotomy, demonstrating significant variation across the patient pathway in resources available, interventions performed, and post-operative outcomes

To read the full study, head to the Lancet Global Health page now and download the free Open Access article

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Any hospital worldwide

Any hospital worldwide that performs emergency trauma surgery was eligible to participate, with a minimum of 1 case submitted by every centre across a 30 day study period

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All trauma laparotomy patients

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 were included in the study

03 Follow up for 30-days

Patients were followed up from admission to death, discharge, or 30-days post-operatively (whichever comes first)

04 Collaborative authorship model

Multiple teams collected across separate study periods during the study window, with all collaborators eligible for study authorship under the GOAL-Trauma collaborative

Trauma care is complex

“The GOAL-Trauma study is one of the biggest global studies of trauma care yet published – it represents a huge effort by a team of partners from across the world, some of whom are practising in the most extreme conditions imaginable and yet still recognise the importance of contributing to international research“

Understanding Trauma Patients

Want to better understand the patients who undergo trauma laparotomy worldwide?

Take a look at our Personas interactive page – all created through data from the GOAL-Trauma Study

“A series of data-driven design personas for global trauma systems based upon the GOAL Trauma dataset and validated by a global network of experts in trauma care”