a collection of data on patients who receive hospital care for certain types of injuries. Such data are primarily designed to ensure quality trauma care and outcomes in individual institutions and trauma systems, but have the secondary purpose of providing useful data for the surveillance of injury morbidity and mortality.

a database consisting of routinely collected information on the injury event, clinical presentation and treatment process for all patients considered to be sufficiently severely injured to be worthy of ongoing review

a database used to evaluate the functioning of the trauma care system on a regional and statewide basis