In 1976, the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma introduced the trauma registry as part of the trauma system.

Injury description and grading of injury severity are systematically registered.

This provides benchmarking data for comparisons of quality of care between patients and institutions and facilitates continuous improvement.

Norway introduced a national trauma system in 2007 and the national trauma registry (NTR) was established in 2015

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