Trauma Audit and Research Network (TARN)
Aims of TARN: to collect and analyse clinical and epidemiological data and thereby to provide a statistical base to support clinical audit to aid the development of trauma services and to inform the research agenda
Objectives of TARN:
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Support multidisciplinary clinical audit by analysis of individual case management
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Provide confidential comparative statistics to clinicians about institutional performance
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Provide summative information to local health commissioners about the trauma workload and its management
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Provide population based statistics on the epidemiology of trauma
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Identify areas of potential research interest
Network website: www.tarn.ac.uk
Network contact: Maralyn Woodford, maralyn.woodford@manchester.ac.uk, tel. 0161 206 4397