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Letter
Contribution to national acute injury and intensive care audit databases in England and Wales
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Recently attention has been turned to trauma care provision,1 2 and the 2010 report on ‘Major Trauma Care in England’ emphasises the lack of progress in trauma care in the UK.3 National audit databases collect information on patient care in many areas of healthcare in England and Wales, providing important epidemiological, treatment processes and clinical outcome information. We investigated the contribution of trauma-receiving emergency departments (EDs) to the Trauma Audit and Research Network (TARN) in 2009. These data were compared with data from the Intensive Care National …
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Competing interests KWD is director of iBID.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; not externally peer reviewed.