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: 9780521100243
• ISBN10: 0521100240
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-18
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Modern evidence-based injury prevention and control strategies have contributed to a substantial decline in the number of deaths associated with injury. Injury Control: Research and Program Evaluation addresses the growing need for a single comprehensive source of data on all research designs available for injury control and research. This accessible guidebook includes information on research tools such as injury severity scales, conducting program evaluations and trauma audits, systematic reviews, and ecologic studies. Epidemiologists and health service investigators, as well as trauma surgeons and emergency medicine physicians who provide the post-acute care of trauma patients, will find this the only current information source focused on injury control research and evaluation.

Table of Contents

An Overview of Injury Research

Classifying and Counting Injury

Measurement of Injury Severity and Co-morbidity

Data Linkages and Using Administrative and Secondary Databases

Rates, Rate Denominators and Rate Comparisons Peter Cummings

Data Collection Methods

Selecting a Study Design for Injury Research

Qualitative Methods in Injury Research

Randomised Trials

Cohort Studies in Injury Research

Case-Control Studies in Injury Research

Ecologic Studies

Case Studies and Trauma Registries

Systematic Reviews of Injury Studies

Evaluating an Injury Intervention or Program

The Development of Clinical Decision Rules for Injury Care

Trauma Performance Improvement

Measuring Disability and Quality of Life Postinjury

Economic Evaluation of Injury Control

Ethical Issues

Index

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