JH-IIRU Team Members Hold Advanced Trauma Registry Workshop in Oman

On August 23 and 24, 2015, JH-IIRU team members, including assistant scientist Dr. Amber Mehmood and postdoctoral fellow Dr. Nino Paichadze led an advanced trauma registry workshop in Muscat, Oman. The workshop was part of the Improving Trauma Care Systems to Reduce the Burden of Road Traffic Injuries in the Sultanate of Oman project. 

Dr. Paichadze presented on hospital-based injury surveillance and trauma registries, discussing key elements, advantages and limitations of both. Dr. Mehmood led sessions as well as discussed in detail the main skill sets for the trauma registry staff, how to abstract injury data and right data points as well as main injury terminology. She also presented an overview of injury codes, the injury severity score, and the revised trauma score.

Dr. Paichadze led a session on data management, which was followed by a hands-on exercise on cleaning and coding data and calculating main outputs, and developing tables and graphs in Excel spreadsheet.

The workshop took place at the Ministry of Health and was attended by the registry staff-nurses from the Nizwa and Khoula hospitals. A total of six nurses were trained through the workshop.