National trauma system establishment based on implementation of regional trauma centers improves outcomes of trauma care: A follow-up observational study in South Korea

Kyoungwon Jung, Junsik Kwon, Yo Huh, Jonghwan Moon, Kyungjin Hwang, Hyun Min Cho, Jae Hun Kim, Chan Ik Park, Jung-Ho Yun, Oh Hyun Kim, Kee-Jae Lee, Sunworl Kim, Borami Lim and Yoon Kim

PLOS Global Public Health, 2022, vol. 2, issue 1, 1-17

Abstract: Although South Korea is a high-income country, its trauma system is comparable to low- and middle-income countries with high preventable trauma death rates of more than 30%. Since 2012, South Korea has established a national trauma system based on the implementation of regional trauma centers and improvement of the transfer system; this study aimed to evaluate its effectiveness. We compared the national preventable trauma death rates, transfer patterns, and outcomes between 2015 and 2017. The review of preventable trauma deaths was conducted by multiple panels, and a severity-adjusted logistic regression model was created to identify factors influencing the preventable trauma death rate. We also compared the number of trauma patients transferred to emergency medical institutions and mortality in models adjusted with injury severity scores. The preventable trauma death rate decreased from 2015 to 2017 (30.5% vs. 19.9%, p

Date: 2022
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