Linking EMS and Trauma Registry Data to Improve Outcomes

Joshua B. Brown; Cherisse Berry; N. Clay Mann; Elliott R. Haut

doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2026.0471

March 25, 2026JAMA Surgery

Linking EMS and Trauma Registry Data to Improve Outcomes

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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.

Implication

This viewpoint discusses improving hospital outcomes by linking prehospital EMS data with trauma records.

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/69c6210b15a0a509bde19946 https://doi.org/10.1001/jamasurg.2026.0471

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Linking EMS and Trauma Registry Data to Improve Outcomes

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