Barclay T Stewart, Adam Gyedu, Robert Quansah, Wilfred Larbi Addo, Akis Afoko, Pius Agbenorku, Forster Amponsah-Manu, James Ankomah, Ebenezer Appiah-Denkyira, Peter Baffoe, Sam Debrah, Peter Donkor, Theodor Dorvlo, Kennedy Japiong, Adam L Kushner, Martin Morna, Anthony Ofosu, Victor Oppong-Nketia, Stephen Tabiri, Charles Mock
INTRODUCTION: Prospective clinical audit of trauma care improves outcomes for the injured in high-income countries (HICs). However, equivalent, context-appropriate audit filters for use in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) district-level hospitals have not been well established. We aimed to develop context-appropriate trauma care audit filters for district-level hospitals in Ghana, was well as other LMICs more broadly. METHODS: Consensus on trauma care audit filters was built between twenty panellists using a Delphi technique with four anonymous, iterative surveys designed to elicit: (i) trauma care processes to be measured; (ii) important features of audit filters for the district-level hospital setting; and (iii) potentially useful filters...
January 2016: Injury