Inaugural report of the Western Australian Trauma Registry 2003.

The Western Australian Trauma Registry was developed using pre-existing trauma registry data from four metropolitan tertiary hospitals in Western Australia; Royal Perth Hospital, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Fremantle Hospital and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. The purpose of this report is to present findings from the Western Australian Trauma Registry for 2003. The report describes characteristics of major trauma including demographic information about patients with major injuries as well as the distribution, causes and outcome of injuries as recorded by the participating trauma registries. (Author/publisher)