Methodist Health System
This retrospective data repository will serve as a means to aggregate and analyze best practices as relative to traumatic colon injury outcomes.
The primary objective of this study is to establish a data repository that will be permissive of quality improvement studies/observations specific to traumatic colon injuries and evaluate current surgical management as treatment, specifically comparing initial primary anastomosis, delayed anastomosis, and ostomy diversion outcomes.
Inclusion Criteria: 18 years old Included in the MDMC(Methodist Dallas Medical Center) Trauma Registry Any diagnosis code indicative of injury to the large and/or small bowel (S36.5 and/or S36.4) Exclusion Criteria: \<18 years old Prisoners, pregnant persons, or other protected population.
The Methodist Dallas Medical Center Trauma Registry will be queried for demographic information, diagnosis codes, admission dates, traumatic injury characteristics, surgical procedures, comorbidities, inpatient outcomes, complications, consultations, discharge location, and mortality. Additional laboratory values will be abstracted from Epic through retrospective chart review.
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