A nationwide fluidics biobank of polytraumatized patients: implemented by the Network Trauma Research (NTF) as an expansion to the TraumaRegister DGU® of the German Trauma Society (DGU)

摘要

The structure of the TraumaRegister DGU of the German Trauma Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Unfallchirurgie, DGU) with its clinical modules, and with the unique scientific add-on “Network Trauma Research Database” provided and supervised by the task force Network “Trauma Research” (Netzwerk Traumaforschung, NTF). The AUC coordinates as a subsidiary of the DGU three different modules via the TR-DGU : the Pelvic Injury Module, the Traumatic Brain Injury Module and the Gunshot and Explosion Module. TR-DGU is considered as one of the world’s largest medical trauma registries, and is the representative registry for the care of severely injured patients in Germany. More than 650 hospitals are entering data into the TR-DGU for both scientific and quality assurance purposes. Additionally, the NTF consortium conceptualized a DGU-funded add-on online Network Trauma Research (NTF) Database, which was technically translated and supported by the AUC. Adjacent to the clinical data sets, the NTF Database is including scientific data, which are obtained from the analyses of biological samples obtained from the NTF-Biobank