Community-based severe trauma investigation

• A nationally approved statistics project conducted to provide basic data necessary for the establishment and evaluation of injury prevention and management policies by identifying factors related to the occurrence of severe injuries, mass casualties, and resulting disabilities and deaths

A complete survey of severe injury and mass casualty patients transported to the emergency room via 119 emergency medical services

• Severe trauma: Among trauma patients due to transportation accidents, falls, slips, etc
  1. Those with an ISS [injury severity score] of 16 or higher, calculated through a medical record investigation
  2. Those who experienced pre-hospital cardiac arrest or pre-hospital death (death upon arrival at the emergency room)
• Non-traumatic severe injury: Patients with injuries from non-traumatic mechanisms such as poisoning, burns, drowning, sexual assault, suffocation, chemical substances, natural disasters, temperature-related injuries, etc., who have an abnormal trauma index
• Mass casualty: Cases where 6 or more patients were transported with the same disaster number on the ambulance run sheet

With the cooperation of the medical institutions to which severe trauma and mass casualty patients were transported, specialized surveyors visit these aforementioned medical institutions to review medical records and conduct the survey according to the survey form.

• General information, demographic and sociological information, injury information, initial treatment information, progress during treatment, post-hospitalization outcomes, disability and rehabilitation information, secondary transport hospital information, and death information.

• Disclosure of statistical books and raw data through linkage with KOSIS [Korean Statistical Information Service] and the National Injury Information Portal kdca.go.kr/injury
• Production and provision of regional injury-related statistics
• Provision of basic data for preparing injury prevention and management programs
• Calculation of internationally comparable health indicators