MTA

Major Trauma Audit

Major Trauma Audit (MTA) is a patient safety initiative that aims to increase quality assurance and improvement initiatives in the area of patient trauma care, through the delivery of high-quality data. The ongoing care and outcome of critically ill patients requires a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional, coordinated and integrated system approach — underpinning that approach is quality assurance enabled by quality data gathering.

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Key Findings

2017-2021 Older Adults Report

This report is focused on older adults, defined as those aged 65 years and over, with major trauma injuries. It provides an in-depth analysis of 11,145 episodes of care between 2017 and 2021 from the 26 participating hospitals. As has been stated in previous reports, the leading cause of major trauma is from low falls. Findings from this report will extend the understanding of the range of injuries associated with such incidents in an older adult population.

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Key Findings

2021 Report

This is the eighth national report from the Major Trauma Audit (MTA). Since 2016, 26 eligible hospitals have been participating in the MTA and data have been collected on almost 33,500 major trauma patients. This report focuses on processes that impact outcomes for patients who sustained major trauma during 2021. This report also includes an emphasis on major trauma patients who required blood products between 2017 and 2021.

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Report 2019-2020

This report focuses on a period of time when Ireland’s health service underwent unprecedented challenges due to the global COVID-19 pandemic which began in 2020. It provides insights into how changes in the health system during this time affected the profile of major trauma and the standard of care for major trauma patient

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Patients

My name is Richard Murray. In July 2021, I suffered a spinal injury while on holiday in County Clare. I’m still in the early days of being a patient and public interest representative for the Major Trauma Audit (MTA), but I hope to contribute positively in terms of how patients are represented and how the public understand the reports, by providing a patient’s perspective. I have benefitted from engaging with the MTA and other entities such as Spinal Injuries Ireland and the Irish Wheelchair Association, as well as my local gym, which has other wheelchair users. I live in a new estate, where everyday I see men almost exclusively around my age (36), but none of them have experienced what I have. So participating and sharing my story with others has helped with the isolation that a spinal injury causes. I hope to encourage others I encounter to see the benefits of engaging with those who actually do have knowledge and a desire to help.

Richard Murray — PPI Representative, MTA Governance Committee