@article{ref1,
title="Non-fatal agricultural injury surveillance in the United States: a review of national-level survey-based systems",
journal="American journal of industrial medicine",
year="2017",
author="Patel, Ketki and Watanabe-Galloway, Shinobu and Gofin, Rosa and Haynatzki, Gleb and Rautiainen, Risto",
volume="60",
number="7",
pages="599-620",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Currently, surveillance of non-fatal agricultural injuries in the U.S. mainly relies on national surveys, and to date, none of these surveys were formally reviewed. Our objective was to review and evaluate these survey-based systems, to identify critical gaps in them and provide recommendations to improve them. <br><br>METHODS: We used the updated Center for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines to describe each system and evaluate each system's attributes like simplicity, flexibility, data quality, timeliness, representativeness, etc. <br><br>RESULTS: Four adult and two youth national surveys collected data for non-fatal agricultural injuries in the U.S. The evaluation identified three major gaps: 1) insufficient data quality attributed to non-response, measurement errors, and underreporting; 2) untimeliness of data; and 3) lack of flexibility to integrate with other existing systems. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Improving data quality, timeliness and flexibility will provide reliable and valid injury estimates, and increase the usefulness of these surveys for surveillance and prevention of farm injuries.<br><br>© 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0271-3586",
doi="10.1002/ajim.22720",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajim.22720"
}