Linking EMS and Trauma Registry Data to Improve Outcomes

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Joshua B. Brown · University of Pittsburgh

Cherisse Berry · Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Elliott R. Haut · Johns Hopkins University

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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.

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Trauma and Emergency Care Studies Emergency and Acute Care Studies Injury Epidemiology and Prevention

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Published in: JAMA Surgery

DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2026.0471

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