Determining objective injury prevention priorities

Priorities for pediatric injury prevention counseling.

Occupational injury prevention research: progress and priorities.

The twentieth century witnessed remarkable reductions in the number and rate of occupational fatalities and injuries. However, many preventable injuries and deaths still occur. Barriers to progress in occupational injury prevention are discussed, along with strategies for overcoming them. In mining, the frequency of death has dramatically declined over the century. The latest figures from the B...

Hynd 1 UPPER EXTREMITY INJURY STUDY: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR INJURY PREVENTION PRIORITIES

A large-scale accident study of injuries in Phases four, five and six of the UK CCIS accident database showed that upper extremity injuries were increasing in frequency in frontal impacts, particularly when an airbag deployed. However, it was difficult to identify injury mechanisms and costs from the information in the database. Therefore, an in-depth case-by-case study of upper extremity injur...

A process to identify military injury prevention priorities based on injury type and limited duty days.

BACKGROUND Injuries, one of the leading public health problems in an otherwise healthy military population, affect operational readiness, increase healthcare costs, and result in disabilities and fatalities. This paper describes a systematic, data-driven, injury prevention-decision making process to rank potential injury prevention targets. METHODS Medical surveillance and safety report data ...

Setting priorities in injury prevention: the application of an incidence based cost model.

OBJECTIVES To make detailed calculations on the direct medical costs of injuries in the Netherlands to support priority setting in prevention. METHODS A computerised, incidence based model for cost calculations was developed and incidence figures derived from the Dutch Injury Surveillance System (LIS) which provides national estimates of the annual number of patients treated at an emergency d...