{
  "abstract": "Introduction The National Trauma Research Repository (NTRR) serves as the central warehouse for trauma clinical research data that result from military and civilian trauma research. An effort to enhance the NTRR was undertaken through the identification and integration of common data elements (CDEs). CDEs will improve usability for primary investigators and allow for enhanced secondary analysis and combing of NTRR archived studies. A consensus-driven approach was used to review established data elements and recommend trauma basic CDEs for the outcomes and rehabilitation environments of care for inclusion in the NTRR data dictionary.Methods A multidisciplinary workgroup located and reviewed data dictionaries, codebooks, data collection forms, and published articles for outcome measurement instruments and individual outcome and rehabilitation data elements. Three rounds of a Delphi Survey were completed, and monthly meetings with the workgroup were conducted. Consensus during the Delphi Survey was identified with an 80% agreement threshold.Results Fifteen sources were reviewed for outcome measurement instruments, 39 measurement instruments were presented for consideration in the Delphi Survey, and 12 instruments (28%) reached consensus for inclusion in the NTRR data dictionary. Seventeen sources were reviewed for individual outcome data elements, 55 data elements were included in the Delphi Survey, and 45 data elements reached consensus for inclusion. Eleven sources were reviewed for rehabilitation data elements. Of the 41 rehabilitation data elements identified and included in the Delphi, 17 data elements reached consensus for inclusion.Discussion This workgroup selected outcome measurement instruments, outcome CDEs, and rehabilitation CDEs for inclusion in the NTRR data dictionary as basic CDEs. Next steps include disseminating these elements, integrating their use in trauma studies, and tracking the use and usability of these instruments and CDEs.Level of evidence VII.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA",
        "Surgery, Bridgeport Hospital, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Kevin M Schuster"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Coalition for National Trauma Research, San Antonio, Texas, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Ashley N Moreno"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Dagmar Amtmann"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "US Army Institute of Surgical Research Burn Center, Joint Base San Antonio Fort Sam Houston, Texas, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Jill Marie Cancio"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Cooper University Health Care, Camden, New Jersey, USA"
      ],
      "name": "John Chovanes"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Adele Doperalski"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Surgery, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Eric Elster"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA",
        "Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Joseph T Giacino"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Surgery, Cooper University Hospital, Camden, New Jersey, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Kirby Robert Gross"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Juan Pablo Herrera-Escobar"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Karen J Kowalske"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Surgery, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, USA",
        "Clinical Research, Shriners Hospitals, Northern California, Sacramento, California, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Ingrid Parry"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Jeffrey C Schneider"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "BRICS Data Dictionary Curator, Publicis Sapient, Arlington, Virginia, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Olga Volk"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [],
      "name": "The NTRR investigator group"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Adopting common data elements (CDEs) for the National Trauma Research Repository (NTRR): the results of an outcome, outcome measures, and rehabilitation Delphi Survey",
  "uid": "46e3b96b-3484-53bf-93bd-fe79d2e895a9"
}