Scottish Trauma Audit Group (STAG)
Scottish Trauma Audit Group (STAG)
The Scottish Trauma Audit Group (STAG) was set up in 1991 to audit the management of seriously injured patients in Scotland. It achieved its aims and stopped collecting trauma data in 2002.
Since 2002, the team has worked on a range of national audit projects, most recently completing an audit of Sepsis Management. This audit looked at the complex healthcare issue of patients who either presented or developed within two days of presentation, signs of sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock and audited the care they received during their initial hospital stay. The final national report was published in November 2010 and is available on the STAG website.
The 2010 National Audit Office report 'Major Trauma Care in England', made recommendations on the regionalisation of trauma services in England. In order to review the applicability of this for trauma services in Scotland, STAG commenced a re audit of the emergency management of trauma patients in Scotland in January 2011.
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Clinical governance and pro-active performance management at a national level highlight the need for robust national datasets that enable individuals, organisations and the government to monitor the quality of the care they provide against evidence based standards and compliance with guidelines
STAG has local audit co-ordinators in all major Emergency Departments in Scotland. Our organisational structure enables us to undertake high quality, clinical audit and provides a useful national clinical audit model to enable this process to occur in a standardised, reliable manner. STAG has an established infrastructure of regional and local audit co-ordinators with a track record of regular reporting of current data, publication in peer review journals and the provision of ad hoc analyses.
Further information on STAG can be found at www.stag.scot.nhs.uk
