• Junsik Kwon, Myeonggyun Lee, Jonghwan Moon, Yo Huh, Seoyoung Song, Sora Kim, LeeSeung JoonSJ0000-0003-1655-0878National Emergency Medical Center, National Medical Center, Seoul, Korea., Borami Lim, Hyo Jin Kim, Yoon Kim, Il KimHyungH0000-0002-2843-5597Department of Emergency Medicine, Dankook University Hospital, Cheonan, Korea., Jung-Ho Yun, Byungchul Yu, Gil Jae Lee, Jae Hun Kim, Oh Hyun Kim, Wook Jin Choi, Myungjae Jung, and Kyoungwon Jung.
• Division of Trauma Surgery, Department of Surgery, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea.
• J. Korean Med. Sci. 2022 Dec 26; 37 (50): e349e349.

BackgroundThe preventable trauma death rate survey is a basic tool for the quality management of trauma treatment because it is a method that can intuitively evaluate the level of national trauma treatment. We conducted this study as a national biennial follow-up survey project and report the results of the review of the 2019 trauma death data in Korea.MethodsFrom January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019, of a total of 8,482 trauma deaths throughout the country, 1,692 were sampled from 279 emergency medical institutions in Korea. All cases were evaluated for preventability of death and opportunities for improvement using a multidisciplinary panel review approach.ResultsThe preventable trauma death rate was estimated to be 15.7%. Of these, 3.1% were judged definitive preventable deaths, and 12.7% were potentially preventable deaths. The odds ratio for preventable traumatic death was 2.56 times higher in transferred patients compared to that of patients who visited the final hospital directly. The group that died 1 hour after the accident had a statistically significantly higher probability of preventable death than that of the group that died within 1 hour after the accident.ConclusionThe preventable trauma death rate for trauma deaths in 2019 was 15.7%, which was 4.2%p lower than that in 2017. To improve the quality of trauma treatment, the transfer of severe trauma patients to trauma centers should be more focused.© 2022 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences.

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