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Table 1 Ohio Trauma Registry Patient Inclusion Criteria*

From: History and development of trauma registry: lessons from developed to developing countries

Category A: One of the following

1. Patient's first or initial admission for at least 48 hours

2. Patients who transfer into or out of any hospital, regardless of their length of stay

3. Patients who are dead on arrival (DOA)

4. Patients who die after receiving any evaluation or treatment while on hospital premises

Category B: One of the following diagnoses

ICD-9-CM Diagnosis Codes

ICD-9-CM Diagnoses Descriptions

800.0 – 819.9

Fractures

821.0 – 904.9

Fractures, dislocations/sprains, intracranial injury, internal injury of thorax, abdomen and pelvis, open wounds, injury to blood vessels

911.0, 911.1, 912.0, 912.1

Abrasions or friction burns to trunk, shoulder and upper arm

916.0, 916.1, 919.0, 919.1

Abrasions or friction burns to hip, thigh, leg, ankle, other or multiple sites

920.0 – 929.9

Contusions and crush injury

940.0 – 959.9

Burns, injury to nerves and spinal cord, traumatic complications and unspecified injury

991.0 – 991.6

Frostbite, hypothermia and external effects of cold

994.0, 994.1, 994.7, 994.8

Asphyxiation, strangulation, drowning, and electrocution

987.9

Smoke inhalation

995.50 – 995.59

Child maltreatment and abuse

***OR***

ICD-9-CM Diagnoses

 

E-CODE

348.4

Uncal herniation

AND WITH

 

348.5

Cerebral Edema

ANY OF THE

E800 – E848.8

348.8

Pneumocephalus

FOLLOWING

E877.8 – E905.0

372.72

Subconjunctival hemorrhage

External Cause Codes

E906.0 – E928.8

518.5

Traumatic ARDS

(E-Codes)

E950.0 – E999

784.7

Epistaxis

  
  1. Codes separated by a hyphen indicate a range of codes including both codes AND all codes in between. Example 800.0 – 801.5 Codes separated by a comma indicate a single code. Example 901.1, 901.2, 901.8
  2. *Adapted from Ohio Trauma Registry Data Element Description Manual, January 2003 edition, Division of EMS, Ohio Department of Public Safety.