ANZTR Newsletter | December 2025

Issue #5

19 December 2025

Data submission deadlines

Q1 (July to September 2025) data is due 31 January 2026.

Please diarise the following deadlines for data submission.

Q1 2025-26 JUL-SEP 2025 Due 31 JAN 2026

Q2 2025-26 OCT-DEC 2025 Due 30 APR 2026

Q3 2025-26 JAN-MAR 2026 Due 31 JUL 2026

Q4 2025-26 APR-JUN 2026 Due 31 OCT 2026

Thank you to all contributing registries and sites for your continued dedication to submitting quality data in a timely manner to the ANZTR. Please ensure to inform us of any potential delays in submitting data by the deadline and let us know if there is anything we can do to support you. Please email anztr.registry@monash.edu after you have transferred data to the ANZTR to confirm your submission.

FUNDING UPDATE

Thank you to Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand for committing to a further 2 years of funding for the ANZTR. We look forward to an ongoing and rewarding partnership.

ANZTS TRAUMA 2025 CONFERENCE RECAP

The Australian & New Zealand Trauma Society Trauma 2025 Conference was held in Wellington, New Zealand. From the 22nd to 24th of October, the conference program covered a broad range of engaging topics within the theme of Survive to Thrive. The ANZTR presented a poster (authored by Ancelin McKimmie, Prof Peter Cameron and Prof Zsolt Balogh) titled ‘Demographics, Mechanism and Outcomes of Polytrauma in Australia and New Zealand’, which was well received by conference attendees. The poster can be found here.

ANNUAL REPORT UPDATE

The 2023-24 ANZTR Annual Report is currently being finalised and will be available soon. This year, the focus section of the report is Polytrauma - defined as having at least two significant (AIS≥3) injuries in two or more body regions and is associated with physiological compromise and systemic inflammation, and comparatively poorer outcomes. Polytrauma was recently recognised as a disease by the World Health Organisation and it will be code-able in the 11th version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) based on an international consensus definition.

Approximately one quarter of all severely injured were polytraumatised. Incidence was highest among younger - predominantly male - adults, and polytrauma patients had worse outcomes compared with the rest of the major trauma population. This highlights the need for a specific focus on this high-risk population in injury prevention, clinical care and research.

In the interim, please see the 2023-24 Year in Review for both Australia and New Zealand below.

ANZTR DATA GOVERNANCE GROUP

Following a Call for Nominations process, the ANZTR Data Governance Group (DGG) was formed on 03 October 2025. The DGG members met on 17 November to review the DGG Terms of Reference, which will be further refined following clarification of scope within the broader ANZTR project.

ANZTR PUBLIC PORTAL

We continue to encourage feedback for further improvement to the public portal. Please access the portal here and email your feedback to anztr.registry@monash.edu or request a time to meet with our team.

DATA REQUESTS

Updates to our Data Use Policy and Data Request Form are currently underway, but we are still processing data requests during this time. Please email anztr.registry@monash.edu with any data requests or for further information.

DATA QUALITY AND VALIDATION CHECKS

Acceptable values for 5.15 Blood Alcohol Concentration on Arrival are 0-120, reported as mmol/L. Please do not report this field with any other units. 999 should be entered if this data field is not stated/inadequately described.
Please note that for 7.06 Acute Length of Stay, 0 is now a permissible value.
Please be reminded that the correct Date/Time formatting is DDMMYYYYT0000. Midnight should be entered as 00:01 of the following date (00:00 and 24:00 are not accepted). For example, midnight 25th November 2026 should be reported as 25112026T0001.

CONTACT

The anztr.registry@monash.edu inbox will not be monitored during the end of year break from 23 December 2025 to 11 January 2026 inclusive. Merry Christmas and thank you for your continued collaboration. Wishing you a joyful holiday season and a Happy New Year.