Neurotrauma Registries in Low- and Middle-Income Countries for Building Organized Neurotrauma Care: The LATINO Registry Experience Comment on "Neurotrauma Surveillance in National Registries of Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review and Comparative Analysis of Data Dictionaries"

Trauma registries play an important role in building capacity for trauma systems. Regularly, trauma registries exist in high-income countries (HICs) but not in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Neurotrauma includes common conditions, like traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) and spinal cord injur...

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Published in:International journal of health policy and management 2023-01, Vol.12 (1), p.7505-3
Main Authors: Rubiano, Andrés M, Clavijo, Angelica
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Brain
Brain injuries
Brain Injuries, Traumatic - epidemiology
Care and treatment
Caribbean Region - epidemiology
Comparative analysis
Developing Countries - statistics & numerical data
Encyclopaedias
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Ethnicity
Hispanic Americans
Hispanic or Latino
Humans
Injuries
Latin America - epidemiology
lmics
Medical care
Medical care quality
neurotrauma
Patient care
Patients
Quality management
Registries - statistics & numerical data
Review Literature as Topic
Spinal cord injuries
Spinal Cord Injuries - epidemiology
trauma registry
trauma systems and latin-america
Trauma, Nervous System - epidemiology
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Summary:Trauma registries play an important role in building capacity for trauma systems. Regularly, trauma registries exist in high-income countries (HICs) but not in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Neurotrauma includes common conditions, like traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) and spinal cord injuries. The development of organized neurotrauma care is crucial for improving the quality of care in less-resourced areas. The recent article published in by Barthélemy et al entitled "Neurotrauma Surveillance in National Registries of Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review and Comparative Analysis of Data Dictionaries" adds an important body of literature to improve understanding of the importance of these types of efforts by promoting organized neurotrauma care systems in LMICs. Here, we provide a short commentary based on our experience with the Latin America and the Caribbean Neurotrauma Registry (LATINO-TBI) in the Latin America (LATAM) region.
ISSN:2322-5939
2322-5939
DOI:10.34172/ijhpm.2022.7505