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Effectiveness of trauma care systems at different stages of development in reducing mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol

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posted on 2023-10-19, 06:07 authored by Rayan Jafnan M Alharbi, Virginia LewisVirginia Lewis, Sumina ShresthaSumina Shrestha, Charne MillerCharne Miller
Introduction
The introduction of trauma systems that began in the 1970s resulted in improved trauma care and a decreased rate of morbidity and mortality of trauma patients. Worldwide, little is known about the effectiveness of trauma care system at different stages of development, from establishing a trauma centre, to implementing a trauma system and as trauma systems mature. The objective of this study is to extract and analyse data from research that evaluates mortality rates according to different stages of trauma system development globally.Methods and analysisThe proposed review will comply with the checklist of the ‘Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis’. In this review, only peer-reviewed articles written in English, human-related studies and published between January 2000 and December 2020 will be included. Articles will be retrieved from MEDLINE, EMBASE and CINAHL. Additional articles will be identified from other sources such as references of included articles and author lists. Two independent authors will assess the eligibility of studies as well as critically appraise and assess the methodological quality of all included studies using the Cochrane Risk of Bias for Non-randomised Studies of Interventions tool. Two independent authors will extract the data to minimise errors and bias during the process of data extraction using an extraction tool developed by the authors. For analysis calculation, effect sizes will be expressed as risk ratios or ORs for dichotomous data or weighted (or standardised) mean differences and 95% CIs for continuous data in this systematic review.
PROSPERO registration numberCRD42019142842.

History

Publication Date

2021-06-01

Journal

BMJ Open

Volume

11

Issue

6

Pagination

(p. e047439-e047439)

Publisher

BMJ

ISSN

2044-6055

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