OpenTrauma Registry helps hospitals collect, review, and export trauma data without adding unnecessary complexity to daily clinical work.
Trauma care improves when hospitals can see and use their data.
Hospitals care for injured patients every day, but many still lack a practical way to see who is being injured, what treatment they receive, where delays occur, and what outcomes follow.
Without reliable trauma data, delays stay hidden, outcomes are harder to review, and improvement efforts depend on incomplete information.
Capture cases
Who was injured, where, and how
Record care
Vitals, injuries, procedures, and key times
Review outcomes
Deaths, delays, complications, missing data
Improve systems
Audits, reports, planning, and research
Many trauma registries start with strong clinical value, but are difficult to sustain when the tools do not fit hospital work.
The challenge is not only starting a registry, but keeping it useful for the people entering and reviewing the data.
Tools too complex for busy clinical teams
Many registries are built like research databases. Long forms and rigid fields make data entry harder for teams that are already stretched.
Technical requirements are hard to sustain
Some platforms depend on stable internet, IT support, paid licenses, or ongoing maintenance that public hospitals with limited infrastructure cannot guarantee.
Data collected, but rarely used
When registry data is disconnected from review meetings and reporting tools, teams have little reason to keep entering it. The registry becomes an archive instead of a tool for improvement.
→ That is why OpenTrauma Registry was built differently.
A practical trauma registry for everyday hospital work.
OpenTrauma Registry is a free, open-source platform designed to fit the way hospital teams already work.
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Cases
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Completeness
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8.2%
Mortality
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Mechanism of injury
The registry on your phone.
Capture trauma cases from any device, online or offline.
Built for trauma teams that need usable data, not another complicated system.
The platform brings case entry, score calculation, data quality checks, summary views, and exports into a single registry process.
Case entry — step 4 of 6
Auto-calculated scores
GCS
E4 V4 M6
Shock Index
HR 98 / SBP 120
ISS
Moderate–Severe
TRISS Ps
87% survival probability
Data completeness
Center configuration
Export ready
Use cases
Single-hospital registry
For hospitals starting or rebuilding trauma data collection.
Multicenter collaboration
A shared dataset for hospitals working together across sites.
QI and reporting
Track missing data, review outcomes, and prepare reports for clinical meetings.
Clinical research
Export structured data for approved research projects.
Mass casualty events
Simplified case entry during high-volume events.
Future modules
The same structure could later support other acute care or surgical registries.
Developed from lessons learned at Hospital Roosevelt, Guatemala.
OpenTrauma Registry was developed after a prior trauma registry at Hospital Roosevelt was discontinued. The redesign was shaped by feedback from registrars, clinicians, and local implementation partners, with a focus on usability, offline use, simplified forms, and data that teams could actually use.
Request a pilot2019–2021
REDCap-based trauma registry implemented at Hospital Roosevelt.
2021
Registry discontinued.
2024–2025
Registry evaluation and feedback from registrars and clinical staff reviewed.
2025–2026
Open Trauma Registry platform developed.
2026
Ready for demonstration and external implementation.
Evidence behind the redesign.
The platform responds to barriers identified during evaluation of the prior registry, including incomplete variables, workflow burden, and limited use of collected data.
When Trauma Registries Fail: Low-Cost, Stakeholder-Informed Redesign of a Trauma Registry in Guatemala
38th Pan-American Congress of Trauma · PTS 2026 · Cartagena, Colombia
Key findings
775 patients enrolled before the registry was discontinued
Key barriers: connectivity, data-entry time, interface complexity, mobile incompatibility, and registrar workload
Variables most relevant for clinical review were often less complete
These findings directly shaped the current platform design
Project team and implementation partners.
Collaborators in trauma surgery, global surgery, emergency medicine, implementation science, and clinical data systems.
Dario Missael Rocha-Castellanos🇲🇽
Project Lead · Platform Development
Physician from Mexico and current researcher at the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School. Leads the development of Open Trauma Registry and its adaptation for hospital use.
Nardeen B. Dawood, MD🇺🇸
Research Fellow · Research Team
Surgery resident at NYU Langone and research fellow at the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change. Supports research activities related to trauma registry implementation.
Amelia Levi, MD🇺🇸
Research Collaborator · Surgery and Trauma
Surgery resident and researcher collaborating on RESPOND-related trauma and implementation work.
Nakul Raykar, MD, MPH🇺🇸
Faculty Mentor · Trauma Systems
Trauma surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Fellowship Director of the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change. Advises on trauma systems, implementation science, and registry strategy.
John G. Meara, MD, DMD, MBA🇺🇸
Senior Advisor · Global Surgery
Plastic Surgeon-in-Chief at Boston Children's Hospital and Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Provides senior guidance on global surgery and surgical system strengthening.
Juan Carlos Puyana, MD, FRCSC, FACS, FACCP🇮🇪
Trauma Surgery Advisor
O'Brien Chair of Global Surgery at RCSI and Professor of Trauma Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. Advises on trauma systems and registry implementation.
Sabrina Marie Asturias Simons, MD🇬🇹
Guatemala Implementation Lead
Chief of Trauma and Emergency Surgery at Hospital Roosevelt and NIH-funded trauma systems investigator. Leads local implementation and clinical coordination in Guatemala.
Jose Carlos Monzon🇬🇹
Implementation Collaborator
Supports local implementation, workflow adaptation, and data quality processes at Hospital Roosevelt.
Carlos Terraza🇬🇹
Implementation Collaborator
Supports local implementation planning, registry adaptation, and coordination with clinical teams.
Partners and implementation network.
Clinical and academic partners supporting trauma care, data systems, and future implementation.
Interested in joining as an implementation partner? Contact us →
Try the demo.
Explore a sample trauma registry workflow with pre-loaded cases and no patient data.
Sample registry demo
Open Trauma Registry
Sample trauma cases are pre-loaded. Explore completeness checks, score calculation, and data export.
No registration required · Instant access
Import any existing dataset in minutes.
Bring REDCap exports, Excel files, or legacy registries. The import engine automatically maps your columns to the OpenTrauma standard.
Drop your file here
CSV, Excel, or REDCap export
trauma_data_legacy_2019_2024.xlsx
2.4 MB · 847 rows · 34 columns
How we can work with your hospital.
We can help your hospital define registry goals, configure the platform, train users, and plan exports for QI, reporting, or research.
Set up your center
Create users, roles, and center-specific settings.
Adapt the registry
Select fields and local options that fit your context.
Train your team
Support registrars and clinical staff during early use.
Turn data into reports
Use exports and summaries for audit, research, and hospital planning.
Request a pilot.
Tell us about your hospital or trauma program, and we will follow up about demo access, pilot setup, or collaboration.