ISB 1606: Trauma Audit and Research Network Standard Data Set

The Trauma Audit and Research Network (TARN) is an established national clinical audit for trauma care across England, Wales and the Republic of Ireland and has been supporting trauma receiving trusts for over thirty years by providing each trauma unit with case mix adjusted outcome analysis, performance of key process measures and comparisons of trauma care.

The NHS England TARN data collection will maintain the current practice of this national clinical audit to achieve the following objectives:

• Encourage best practice within the emergency care setting by monitoring standards recommended by NICE, the Royal College of Surgeons and British Orthopaedic Association
• Provide participating trusts with an assessment of the procedures and treatment administered to the injured patient
• Produce analysis for clinical and epidemiological data and thereby provide a statistical base to support clinical audit
• Support multidisciplinary clinical audit by analysis of case management
• Provide comparative statistics to clinicians and clinical governance upon patient outcome performance
• Allow commissioners to monitor trauma load and measure quality of care
• Support trauma care system development.

This information standard is published under section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012. An Information Standards Notice (see below) provides an overview of scope and implementation timescales, and the requirements specification provides further detail for those who have to implement the information standard.