Linking EMS and Trauma Registry Data to Improve Outcomes

This Viewpoint discusses challenges linking emergency medical services (EMS)–documented care with hospital outcomes and the potential of local, regional, and state trauma and EMS stakeholders to adopt and require the use of the National EMS Information System universally unique identifier to link patients’ prehospital and in-hospital trauma records at the hospital level.

Corresponding Author: Joshua B. Brown, MD, MSc, Division of Trauma brownjb@upmc.edu).

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