Injury Control A Guide to Research and Program Evaluation

Name: Injury Control A Guide to Research and Program Evaluation
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ISBN: 9780521100243

ISBN-10: 0521100240

ISBN-13: 9780521100243

Edition: 2009

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

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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…

Book details

List price: $67.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/18/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.69" wide x 9.61" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English




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