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Handout: Data Plan Part 2: Registry Operations Manager Viewpoint
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The document outlines a data quality plan for trauma registries, emphasizing the importance of maintaining data integrity and accuracy. A requirement for all trauma centers is to have a written data quality plan that undergoes quarterly review to ensure the data’s fitness for use. Key principles of data integrity highlighted in the plan are Attributable, Legible, Contemporaneous, Original, and Accurate (ALCOA). <br /><br />The plan underscores the need for continuous processes to measure, monitor, identify, and correct data quality issues. Data quality serves as a measure of a dataset’s condition, heavily reliant on data integrity. Accurate trauma data is critical for performance improvement, protocol development, research, public health interventions, and more. This involves ensuring consistent and complete data, which prevents errors in patient care improvement opportunities and research outcomes.<br /><br />Both internal and external data validations are essential components of the data quality plan. Internally, registrars should run validations and audits on records, ensuring data such as admitting doctor/service and coding aligns correctly. External validations involve using TQIP centers and frequency reports to identify and correct errors.<br /><br />The document also emphasizes the significant impacts of incomplete or inaccurate data, which can lead to missed opportunities in patient care enhancements and increase costs. It advocates for peer reviews and validations, aiming for high accuracy rates. Strategies for achieving data quality include scheduled monthly meetings, creating a registry report card, using data dictionaries, and tracking registrar accuracy.<br /><br />Finally, the text concludes by encouraging communication about the importance of data quality, emphasizing that everyone involved in data handling should participate in validation processes to instigate the Hawthorne effect—awareness that work will be checked incentivizes careful data handling.
Keywords
data quality plan
trauma registries
data integrity
ALCOA principles
data validation
performance improvement
peer reviews
registry report card
data accuracy
Hawthorne effect
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