Ontario Trauma Registry

The Ontario Trauma Registry (OTR) identifies, describes and quantifies trauma injuries in Ontario.

Original Source:	Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
Distributed By:	Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
Suggested Citation:	Ontario Trauma Registry [month, year – month, year], Extracted: [month,year]

Related OPHS Standards

The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) manages two trauma registry databases (1, 2):

National Trauma Registry (NTR): NTR collects data on injury hospitalizations in Canada
Ontario Trauma Registry (OTR): OTR collects information on injury hospitalizations and injury deaths in Ontario.

The Ontario Trauma Registry is used to identify, describe and quantify trauma injuries in Ontario. This registry is funded by the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care and managed by the Canadian Institute of Health Information (2).
Goals of the registries are to contribute information to increase awareness of injuries; support injury-related research; and provide evidence in support of prevention and treatment programs to facilitate the reduction of injuries and related deaths (2).
OTR data comes from the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), 11 trauma centres and the Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario. The 11 trauma centres located across 14 sites are: Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa; Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation, Hamilton (2 sites); Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto; Hôtel-Dieu Grace Hospital , Windsor; Kingston General, Kingston; London Health Sciences Centre, London (2 sites); The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa (2 sites); Health Sciences North/Lake Ramsey Health Centre, Sudbury; St Michael's Hospital, Toronto; Sunny Brooke Health Sciences Centre, Toronto and Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, Thunder Bay (2).

The Minimal Data Set (MDS) contains demographic, diagnostic and procedural data on all injury admissions to acute care hospitals in Ontario.
The Comprehensive Data Set (CDS) has detailed patient information, administrative and clinical data such as pre and post hospital care, patient outcomes and a 6 month follow-up.
The Death Data Set (DDS) has information on all deaths due to trauma. Data includes demographics, cause of death, details of the injury and other factors contributing to the death.

For detailed information about these data sets, including years of availability, please refer to https://www.cihi.ca/en/ontario-trauma-registry-metadata.
CIHI has publicly available data on injuries and custom data requests can be made using the data inquiry form located at https://www.cihi.ca/en/data-and-standards/access-data.
Reports based on OTR data are available at https://www.cihi.ca/en/trauma-and-injuries#_Reports_and_Analyses.

Canadian Institute for Health Information. Ontario Trauma Registry 2011 Report: Major Injury in Ontario, 2009-2010 Data. Available from: http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2012/icis-cihi/H115-8-2011-end.pdf

This Core Indicator Product webpage is maintained by the Injury Prevention Subgroup.

Date	Review Type	Author	Changes	PDF
October 29, 2012	Date of Last Revision	Injury Prevention Subgroup
December 2, 2019	Website Update: No Content Review	Caitlyn Paget, on behalf of the CIWG	Migrated to new website structure and format, including: Reorganized content to provide high-level information at a glance, and move in-depth analytic information into dedicated sections for users to access when needed. Added short data source description in header. Moved data-specific Analysis Checklist items from the indicator pages to reduce duplication. Crosslinked to relevant Core Indicators webpages including OPHS program standard(s) and associated indicator(s). Added Revision History table, with PDF copy of previous version for reference.

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