Software Developer’s Toolkit

The NTDB would like to offer the latest version of the Software Developer’s Toolkit to states and developers to implement the NTDS XML into their product. This SDK update was posted on 11/07/2008. Previous versions of the NTDS SDK may be found in the website archive.

• National Trauma Data Standard Software Developer's Toolkit (NTDS SDK) Version 2010.2 (zip)
  
  Contact Information regarding use of the Software Developer’s Toolkit:
  Grant Dittmer
  Project Manager, NTDS SDK
  Digital Innovation
  e-mail: NtdsSdkSupport@dicorp.com

The NTDS and NHTSA 2.2.1 Connection

The XML associated with NTDS is similar to the NHTSA 2.2.1 XML, characterizing standardized pre-hospital variables. The XSDs associated with pre-hospital variables in the NTDS exactly match the same variables in the NHTSA 2.2.1 data standard. This compatibility was designed to promote data exchange. The following link provides a document in which green variables demonstrate direct XML and XSD compatability when moving from NEMSIS to NTDS.  Yellow indicates variables in NEMSIS that could “inform” trauma registry abstractors, but no direct data transfer is possible (i.e., there is non-matching XML and XSDs).

Linked document developed by: David James Harden, JD; Trauma Program Coordinator; Arizona Department of Health Services