Injury Control: A Guide to Research and Program Evaluation

by Edited by Frederick P. Rivara , Peter Cummings , Thomas D. Koepsell , David C. Grossman , Ronald V. Maier

• ISBN13: 9780521661522
• ISBN10: 0521661528
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-27
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

In the twentieth century, evidence-based injury prevention and control strategies have contributed to a substantial decline in the number of deaths associated with injury. Until relatively recently, however, researchers studying these strategies have had to pull their methodologies from other disciplines, resulting in a lack of knowledge of all possible research methods and how to employ these methods in the field of injury control. Injury Control: A Guide to Research and Evaluation addresses the growing need for a comprehensive source of data on all research designs available for injury control and research. Included in this accessible guidebook is information on research tools such as injury severity scales, conducting program evaluations and trauma audits, systematic reviews, and ecologic studies. Epidemiologists, health service investigators, as well as trauma surgeons and emergency medicine physicians who will provide the post acute care of trauma patients will find this the only information source focused on injury control research and evaluation.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
An Overview of Injury Research	1	(14)
Frederick P. Rivara
Classifying and Counting Injury	15	(17)
Lois A. Fingerhut
Elizabeth McLoughlin
Measurement of Injury Severity and Co-morbidity	32	(15)
Grant O'Keefe
Gregory J. Jurkovich
Data Linkages and Using Administrative and Secondary Databases	47	(17)
Beth A. Mueller
Rates, Rate Denominators, and Rate Comparisons	64	(11)
Peter Cummings
Robyn Norton
Thomas D. Koepsell
Data Collection Methods	75	(14)
Carol W. Runyan
J. Michael Bowling
Selecting a Study Design for Injury Research	89	(15)
Thomas D. Koepsell
Qualitative Methods in Injury Research	104	(12)
David C. Grossman
Lorna Rhodes
Randomized Trials	116	(13)
Thomas D. Koepsell
Cohort Studies in Injury Research	129	(10)
Jess F. Kraus
Case-Control Studies in Injury Research	139	(18)
Peter Cummings
Thomas D. Koepsell
Ian Roberts
Ecologic Studies	157	(11)
Ralph Hingson
Jonathan Howland
Thomas D. Koepsell
Peter Cummings
Case Series and Trauma Registries	168	(15)
Charles Mock
Systematic Reviews of Injury Studies	183	(13)
Frances Bunn
Carolyn G. DiGuiseppi
Ian Roberts
Evaluating an Injury Intervention or Program	196	(21)
Robert S. Thompson
Jeffrey J. Sacks
The Development of Clinical Decision Rules for Injury Care	217	(19)
Ian G. Stiell
Trauma Performance Improvement	236	(14)
Ronald V. Maier
Michael Rhodes
Measuring Disability and Quality of Life Postinjury	250	(20)
Ellen J. MacKenzie
Economic Evaluation of Injury Control	270	(13)
John D. Graham
Maria Segui-Gomez
Ethical Issues	283	(14)
Helen McGough
Marsha E. Wolf
Index	297