Major Trauma Audit (MTA)

The Major Trauma Audit (MTA) will provide a framework for hospitals to collect standardised data on patient injury, care processes and patient outcomes. The National Office of Clinical Audit (NOCA) will provide the frameworks and operational support for the introduction of MTA in Ireland, through participation in the UK Trauma Audit and Research Network (TARN). TARN is based on web-enabled collection of a standardised dataset for patients who are admitted to hospital or die in the Emergency Department (ED) with centralised analysis and benchmarking of data undertaken at TARN based in the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre University of Manchester.

Purpose: Aim: The MTA will drive system-wide quality improvement to achieve the best outcomes for trauma patients in Ireland.

MTA objectives can be found at this link: https://www.noca.ie/audits/mta-objectives

Scope: 1. All trauma patients irrespective of age 2. who fulfil one of the following length of stay criteria:

a Direct admissions  Trauma admissions whose length of stay is 3 days or more  Trauma patients admitted to a High Dependency Area regardless of length of stay  Deaths of trauma patie

Coverage: National- all acute hospitals that receive major trauma (26 hospitals in total).

Coverage is based on discharges within the calendar year for example 1/1/22-31/12/22. The percentage of patients with HIPE episodes with trauma codes (ICS 10-AM S and T codes) that fulfil the length of stay criteria fo