Casualty Care Form: Low-Resource Conflict Settings

System-wide trauma registries have played a key role in reducing preventable death among combat casualties of high-resource militaries. While several efforts exist to introduce trauma registries in low- and low-middle income countries, no standardized data collection exists for casualties in low-resource conflict settings (LRCS) encompassing prehospital to operative management. To address this gap, EXTRACCT has developed a casualty data form (CDF) for LRCS based on a previous analysis of casualty care in Burkina Faso. This toolkit includes:

• A Microsoft Word-based CDF

• An Excel sheet

• A KoBo Toolbox form

This open-access toolkit, designed for casualty care data collection in LRCS, provides standardized data collection instruments in multiple formats compatible with limited connectivity and minimal existing data infrastructure. This toolkit holds potential to facilitate casualty care documentation in LRCS. An improved evidence base may help data-driven approaches to reducing preventable death and disability among local casualties.

These forms are open access and free to use. If used for research, please acknowledge “EXTRACCT Casualty Care Form”

cASUALTY dATA cOLLECTION sHEET

A Microsoft Word-based Casualty Data Form intended for paper data collection.

eXCEL

A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet with a coding guide for offline electronic data capture.

KOBO tOOLBOX

A KoBo Toolbox Form intended for on- or offline data collection.