TY - JOUR AU - Jeppesen, Elisabeth AU - Cuevas-Ă˜strem, Mathias AU - Gram-Knutsen, Cathrine AU - Uleberg, Oddvar PY - 2020 DA - 2020/05/06 TI - Undertriage in trauma: an ignored quality indicator? JO - Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine SP - 34 VL - 28 IS - 1 AB - Early identification of life-threatening injuries is essential to reduce morbidity and mortality in trauma patients. Failure to detect severe injury may cause delayed diagnosis and therapeutic interventions and is associated with increased morbidity. A national trauma system will contribute to ensure the optimal care for seriously injured patients throughout the treatment chain by, among other things, defining a sensitive triage tool for identifying severe injury and contribute to correct treatment destination. In 2017, a National trauma plan was implemented in Norway and several quality indicators were recommended to ensure an evaluation of potential gaps between achieved and desired quality, and thereby highlighting areas with potential for quality improvement. With this commentary, we want to draw attention to, what we believe is, an ignoring of an important quality indicator: undertriage in trauma. SN - 1757-7241 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13049-020-00729-6 DO - 10.1186/s13049-020-00729-6 ID - Jeppesen2020 ER -