Trauma Programs and Performance Improvements

Here are examples of tools to assist with performance improvement reviews and making determinations that guide action items and loop closure.

Trauma PI Review Form Example 1

Trauma PI Determinations Tool Example 1

Trauma PI Determinations Tool Example 2

Secondary and tertiary reviews are the crux of a PI program. Sometimes these are called Morbidity and Mortality conferences. Minutes are a great way to show discussion of the issues and rationale for determinations of the case. Here are a few examples of minutes templates.

Minutes Template 1

Minutes Template 2

Templates for letters to send to facilities that receive your trauma patients. These templates provide brief information and required registry data for the receiving facility.

Transfer Out Letter Example 1

Audit sheets are a helpful way to track performance improvement concurrently. Here is a sample tool that can be used to round on trauma patients and track complications and other facility-specific audit filters.

Sample PI Rounding/Audit Tool