The Scottish Trauma Audit Group
Requesting STAG data
The Scottish Trauma Audit Group (STAG) welcomes opportunities to collaborate with colleagues to further the understanding of trauma.
If you are interested in using STAG data for research purposes, please access the:
- Scottish National Audit Programme Information Request Process (external website), which explains how to select the relevant application form to submit, and the release of data process.
Please return completed forms to the Scottish National Audit Programme mailbox: phs.snap@phs.scot for consideration.
We are happy to provide appropriate colleagues in each hospital with more detailed Management Information data from the audit to help manage patients at your site. Please contact phs.stag@phs.scot in the first instance.
N.B. STAG had a break in trauma data collection between 2003 and 2010, so no trauma data is available for this time period.
STAG recommenced collection of trauma data in 2011 and methodology was mainly comparable to the first STAG audit from 1992-2002. In 2013, the methodology was changed by:
a) the introduction of an updated AIS coding dictionary(version 2005 with 2008 updates) in 2013 (which added many codes and changed the severity coding for some injuries)
b) an amended inclusion/exclusion criteria 
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- the main changes of which reduced the follow up time of patients in the audit from 3 months to 30 days, and excluded some isolated closed lower limb injuries as well as isolated closed upper limb injuries.
Mapping of 2011-2012 data to the new AIS codes and inclusion has now been completed.