The National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB) is the largest aggregation of U.S. trauma registry data ever assembled. The goal of the NTDB is to inform the medical community, the public, and decision makers about a wide variety of issues that characterize the current state of care for injured persons in our country.  It has implications in many areas including epidemiology, injury control, research, eduction, acute care, and resource allocation.  Click here for access to the database:  www.ntdb.org