Overview

The Alaska Trauma Registry tracks data on the most seriously injured patients and the care they receive. Since 1991, hospitals across the state have contributed information to help improve trauma care and injury prevention.

The registry collects data on patients who are hospitalized, observed, transferred, or declared dead in the emergency department within 30 days of an injury. It includes trauma, burns, poisoning (for children under 18), suffocation, and cold-related conditions.

This data helps hospitals, ambulance services, and other organizations improve care, prevent injuries, support research, and guide policy decisions.

Who qualifies?

Trauma Registry data is confidential and protected under Alaska Statute 18.23.010-070. All trauma registry personnel and those requesting trauma registry data are required to sign a confidentiality statement. The trauma registry does not include patient, physician, hospital, clinic, or ambulance service identifiers.

How to sign up

Step 1

Prior to all data requests, please review the following information, without skipping any steps.

  1. ATR Subsistence Flow Chart
  2. ATR Work-Related Definition

Step 2

After reviewing step 1, please review the documents below.

 For a copy of the most recent Data Dictionary, please email doh.tsak.info@alaska.gov.

Step 3

After reviewing step 2, please complete the documents below.

Step 4

Please email completed documents to the Alaska Trauma Registry.

Step 5

Please allow two business days for a response and instruction to follow.

How to use

Trauma Registry data isn’t available online. To access it, contact the Emergency Programs office. Most requests are provided as summary reports, but detailed data for research can be requested following the Trauma Registry Release of Information Policy.

Injury Surveillance Charts

Non-Fatal Charts

All Non-Fatal and Fatal PDF charts older than 25 months can be found on the State of Alaska Library Archives website.

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