New online database for TARN
14 June 2007
The UK’s Trauma Audit and Research Network (TARN), which gathers and
analyses data for hospitals to monitor their performance against past
results and the performance of other hospitals, has a new online
database.
The resource — which brings together different aspects of care that
trauma patients receive and informs clinicians so that they may review
the overall care and make improvements — will enable public access to
up-to-date information on where the best care is located, helping
facilitate the Government’s current drive for patient choice.
The system already holds 220,000 anonymous patient records collected
from strategically important points such as emergency departments,
theatre and intensive care and neurosurgical units — providing valuable
statistics.
“By disclosing information we hope that standards will constantly
improve”, says Maralyn Woodford, Director of TARN. “The efficacy of this
is shown through precedents such as the Kennedy report into cardiac
surgery of children in Bristol. In the light of the report, they were
under enormous pressure to turn their performance around.
“We now have immediate access to more detailed information and our
analysis can be translated into real service delivery improvements for
trauma patients.”
See www.tarn.ac.uk for more information.
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