Overview
This retrospective data repository will serve as a means to aggregate and analyze best practices as relative to traumatic colon injury outcomes.
Description
The primary objective of this study is to establish a data repository that will be permissive of quality improvement studies/observations specific to traumatic colon injuries and evaluate current surgical management as treatment, specifically comparing initial primary anastomosis, delayed anastomosis, and ostomy diversion outcomes.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
18 years old Included in the MDMC(Methodist Dallas Medical Center) Trauma Registry Any diagnosis code indicative of injury to the large and/or small bowel (S36.5 and/or S36.4)
Exclusion Criteria:
\<18 years old Prisoners, pregnant persons, or other protected population.


