The Trauma Registrar’s Role in Performance Improvement

Missed our July webinar? Access the recording and slides today!

This webinar featured special guest Kevin Shovlin, MBA, BSN, RN, TCRN, CHFP, NE-BC — Account Executive & Trauma Product Specialist.

The trauma registrar is far more than a data entry role, and this session proves it.

Kevin will walk through how trauma registrars can step into their full potential as active contributors to Performance Improvement, covering:

• Describe the registrar’s active PI role beyond data entry, including concurrent abstraction, clinical rounding, shift handoffs, and PIPS committee engagement.
• Identify ACS-COT standards 6.1 and 7.2 and explain registrar accountability within each.
• Compare retrospective vs. concurrent review and explain why concurrent abstraction yields more accurate, actionable PI data.
• Demonstrate how audit filter reports, complication trends, and benchmark outliers are used to identify and scope PI projects.
• Explain how to expand the trauma registry beyond the NTDS minimum dataset to support guideline compliance, TQIP optimization, and research.

Whether you’re a trauma registrar, PI coordinator, or trauma program leader, this is a session you won’t want to miss.

To download the slides for this presentation, click here!