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Table 1.
Articles included in qualitative synthesis of systematic review.
| Country | Author, Year | Methodology | Number of hospitals | Number of patients (over study period) | Included in quantitative analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia | Ordóñez et al. 2012 [29] | Electronic trauma data capture in emergency department for trauma patients. | 2 | 3923 (3 months) | Yes |
| Fiji | Wainiqolo et al. 2012 [43] | Paper injury surveillance form using data captured from medical notes (inpatients only). | 12 | 2233 (1 year) | No: injury surveillance data captured from inpatient medical notes only. |
| India | Roy et al. 2010 [37] | Paper trauma checklist on admission to trauma ward. One hundered and seventy randomly selected patients from a total of 454 patients admitted to trauma ward. Excluded: elderly patients with an isolated fracture of the neck of the femur. | 1 | 170 (2 months) | Yes |
| Iran | Haghparast-Bidgoli et al. 2013 [8] | Validated trauma questionnaire completed for all admitted trauma patients. | 14 | 17,753 (5 years) | Yes |
| Iran | Moini et al. 2000 [22] | Paper trauma registry form completed for all trauma patients in emergency department and followed up daily on the ward. | 3 | 2663 (1 year) | No: Same data as Rabbani/Moini paper. |
| Iran | Rabbani and Moini 2007 [34] | Paper trauma registry form completed for all trauma patients in emergency department and followed up daily on the ward. | 3 | 4096 (likely over 7 years but not recorded) | Yes |
| Jamaica | Plummer et al. 2010 [33] | Electronic trauma database. Patients aged 25–29 years selected from the database. | 1 | 715 (5 years) | No: only 25–29 year olds included. |
| Jamaica | Ward et al. 2010 [44] | Paper injury surveillance form for trauma patients on arrival in hospital or after stabilised if critically unwell. | 9 | 40,563 (1 year) | Yes |
| Malawi | Samuel et al. 2010 [39] | Emergency department trauma registry form filled out for trauma patients on arrival and retrospective review of all hospital ward admissions, discharges and report log books. Combined data. | 1 | 1474 (6 months) | Yes |
| Malaysia | Sabariah et al. 2008 [38] | All major trauma patients’ details directly entered into electronic database. | 5 | 933 (1 year) | Yes |
| Nigeria | Nottidge et al. 2014 [25] | Paper trauma registry forms obtained prospectively in emergency department for all patients with injuries. | 1 | 93 (7 weeks) | Yes |
| Pakistan | Hashmi et al. 2013 [9] | Computerised database of all activated trauma team calls (dead on arrival and burns excluded). | 1 | 1227 (12 years) | Yes |
| Pakistan | Mehmood et al. 2013 [20] | Electronic trauma registry of all trauma patients in emergency department (excluding isolated hip fractures and dead on arrival). | 1 | 542 (3 months) | Yes |
| Pakistan | Zafar et al. 2002 [51] | Initial paper trauma form for all patients meeting trauma team activation criteria, converted to online database. Patients operated on in other hospitals excluded. | 1 | 279 (2 years) | No: same data as Hashmi et al.’s paper. |
| Rwanda | Petroze et al. 2014 [32] | Paper trauma registry forms completed for all injured patients transferred from a district hospital, who died in the emergency department or admitted due to injury included. Minor injuries treated as an outpatient excluded. | 1 | 2227 (1 year) | Yes |
| South Africa | Laing et al. 2014 [17] | Electronic trauma registry. Inclusion criteria: all trauma-related admissions, all trauma-related mortalities. Exclusion criteria: all orthopaedic trauma cases managed without co-supervision or consultation from trauma surgeons, all trauma cases managed as outpatients, burns patients, attempted suicides by way of poison or caustic substance ingestion, foreign body ingestion, inhalation. | 2 | 2550 (1 year) | Yes |
| South Africa | Schuurman et al. 2011 [40] | Paper trauma registry forms filled out for all trauma patients in emergency department. | 1 | 785 (1 month) | Yes |
| Turkey | Squyer et al. 2008 [42] | Medical records of all trauma patients admitted retrospectively reviewed. Compared to US hospital trauma registry data. | 2 | 506 (1 year) | No: retrospective data collection of admitted patients. Not trauma registry. |
| Uganda | Demyttenaere et al. 2009 [4] | Paper trauma registry forms completed for all trauma patients in emergency department. | 1 | 3778 (1 year) | Yes |
| Uganda | Hsia et al. 2010 [11] | Paper trauma registry forms completed for all trauma patients in emergency department. | 1 | 3750 (1 year) | No: same data set as Demyttenaere et al.’s paper. |
| Uganda | Kobusingye and Lett 2000 [14] | Paper trauma registry forms completed for all trauma patients in emergency department. | 2 | 5210 (no study period available in paper) | No: no study period available to assess if same patients in Kobusingye et al. paper from 2002. |
| Uganda | Kobusingye et al. 2002 [13] | Paper trauma registry forms completed for all trauma patients in emergency department. | 5 (citywide) | 4359 (1 year) | Yes |
| Zambia | Seidenberg et al. 2014 [41] | Paper trauma registry forms completed for patients if they presented to the Surgical Emergency Centre with evidence of injury. Additional data collected on those brought in dead through the same Emergency Centre. | 1 | 3498 (6 months) | Yes |
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