TY - JOUR T1 - Quality of trauma care and trauma registries JO - Medicina Intensiva (English Edition) T2 - AU - Pino Sánchez,F.I. AU - Ballesteros Sanz,M.A. AU - Cordero Lorenzana,L. AU - Guerrero López,F. SN - 21735727 M3 - 10.1016/j.medine.2015.02.002 DO - 10.1016/j.medine.2015.02.002 UR - https://www.medintensiva.org/en-quality-trauma-care-trauma-registries-articulo-S2173572715000077 AB - Traumatic disease is a major public health concern. Monitoring the quality of services provided is essential for the maintenance and improvement thereof. Assessing and monitoring the quality of care in trauma patient through quality indicators would allow identifying opportunities for improvement whose implementation would improve outcomes in hospital mortality, functional outcomes and quality of life of survivors. Many quality indicators have been used in this condition, although very few ones have a solid level of scientific evidence to recommend their routine use. The information contained in the trauma registries, spread around the world in recent decades, is essential to know the current health care reality, identify opportunities for improvement and contribute to the clinical and epidemiological research. ER -