Texas EMS/Trauma Registry Workgroup meeting announcement

[Guest guest]

Dear valued customers,

The Texas EMS/Trauma Registry is reviving the EMS/Trauma Registry Workgroup

and hosting a January 2008 conference call meeting. The purpose of the

workgroup is to discuss issues related to the EMS/Trauma Registry including,

but not limited to, the data fields we collect, reporting rules,

participation, data quality, education, and communication. I invite anyone

who is interested to participate in the upcoming EMS/Trauma Registry

Workgroup conference call meeting.

The conference call will be held on January 22 from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm CST.

To join in the discussion, simply call 1 and enter room

number *8757089* (the star key must be entered before and after the room

number).

Agenda

A. Data requests

a. Explanation of 2004 clean data versus 2005-2007 dirty data

b. What is available for data requests

c. How to improve the speed of filling data requests

B. The hospital data set and the National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB)

C. How to improve data quality and eliminate duplicates (if time

permits)

Email andy.alegria@... if you would like to recommend other

agenda items. Some agenda items may be addressed at other EMS/Trauma

Registry Workgroup meetings.

I recommend that you review the following documents before the meeting and

have them accessible during the meeting:

The hospital data dictionary

http:///www.dshs.state.tx.us/injury/trauma/datadict.shtm

The National Trauma Data Bank data dictionary

http://www.facs.org/trauma/ntdb.html

Comparison of the Texas hospital and NTDB data sets

http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/injury/registry/workgrps/etrwg.shtm

Download the file 'etr_ntdb.xls'