CSTR Certification Exam – Questions With Solutions
What are the uses of a Trauma Registry? Right Ans - Performance
Improvement
Public Health
Injury Prevention
Trauma Systems
Outcomes measurement
Resource Utilization and Cost Analysis
Research
Meeting Requirements for Verification and Designation
Expanding as the program grows
Confidentiality
Data Collection
How is the Trauma Registry used for Performance Improvement? Right
Ans - -must be used to support the performance improvement and patient
safety (PIPS) process.
-used to objectively review the care provided to individual patients.
-to identify variations in the processes and outcomes for groups of patients.
-can monitor a variety of parameters, track variability, and document
improvement.
-a tool to drive the performance improvement process for individual
hospitals, emergency medical services systems, regional trauma systems, and
the provision of injury care at the national level
How is the Trauma Registry used for Public Health? Right Ans - -provide
information about the incidence, care, cost, and outcome of injuries.
-measures can be stratified further by age, sex, and ethnicity.
-create a population-based depiction of injury as a disease process could be
important information for departments of health.
-submission of data to a state trauma registry.
-inform public officials about trauma as a public health problem, thus serving
as a basis for legislative and regulatory efforts.
How is the Trauma Registry used for Injury Prevention? Right Ans - -
characterize the frequency and patterns of injury in their communities.
-lead to the identification of high-risk groups who may benefit from injury
prevention programs.
, -findings must be used to identify injury prevention priorities that are
appropriate for local implementation.
-used to monitor the impact of interventions.
-effect changes in policy and behavior.
How is the Trauma Registry used for Trauma Systems? Right Ans - -data
collection and analysis.
-shared and aggregated at the local, state, and national levels to assess trauma
system function.
-collect important information about the overall function of trauma systems.
How is the Trauma Registry used for Outcome Measurement? Right Ans - -
risk-adjusted benchmarking processes at the regional, state, or national level.
What does ACS TQIP require from all trauma centers? Right Ans - A risk-
adjusted benchmarking system to measure performance and outcomes.
How is the Trauma Registry used for Resource Utilization and Cost Analysis?
Right Ans - -document the resources required by a trauma program.
-facilitate reliable evaluation of treatments currently considered the standard
of care.
-new strategies of care for injured patients.
-the impact of innovative technologies.
justify institutional and financial support of needed personnel and capital
expenditures.
-analyses are increasingly important when scrutinizing the costs and
outcomes of individual practitioners, hospitals, and systems that provide
trauma care
How is the Trauma Registry used for Research? Right Ans - -is a rich source
of data to use for advance knowledge of injury.
-encouraged to use their trauma registry data for research
-provided to hundreds of researchers to answer important questions across
the continuum of injury care. -analyses published in the peer-reviewed
trauma literature.
Who is the largest aggregation of trauma registry data ever assembled at a
national level? Right Ans - NTDB National Trauma Data Bank
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