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March 27, 2026JAMA Surgery2 citations

Linking EMS and Trauma Registry Data to Improve Outcomes

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JBJoshua B. BrownCBCherisse BerryNMN. Clay Mann

Key Points

  • The aim is to identify ways to improve patient outcomes by integrating EMS care data with hospital performance metrics.
  • Discussion of challenges in linking EMS data with hospital outcomes.
  • Evaluation of existing trauma registry systems and their collaboration with EMS.
  • Suggestions for stakeholders to adopt standardized data identifiers.
  • Identified gaps in current data linkage practices between EMS and hospitals.
  • Highlight potential benefits of a unified data system for tracking trauma care outcomes.
  • Emphasized the importance of stakeholder adoption for data integration.

Abstract

This Viewpoint discusses challenges linking emergency medical services (EMS)–documented care with hospital outcomes and the potential of local, regional, and state trauma and EMS stakeholders to adopt and require the use of the National EMS Information System universally unique identifier to link patients’ prehospital and in-hospital trauma records at the hospital level.

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Brown et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69c6210b15a0a509bde19946https://doi.org/10.1001/jamasurg.2026.0471
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