TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2002//
TI  - Injury surveillance in the ED: design, implementation, and analysis
JO  - American journal of emergency medicine
A1  - Boyle, Kelly E.
A1  - Kavee, Jill D.
A1  - Wright, J. L.
A1  - Boenning, D. A.
A1  - Overpeck, Mary D.
A1  - Cheng, Tina L.
A1  - Rossi, Maryann W.
A1  - Scheidt, Peter C.
A1  - Brenner, Ruth A.
SP  - 181
EP  - 187
VL  - 20
IS  - 3
N2  - Comprehensive, population-based surveillance for nonfatal injuries requires uniform methods for data collection from multiple hospitals. To show issues related to design and implementation of multihospital, emergency department (ED), injury surveillance, a city-wide system in the United States is discussed. From October 1, 1995 to September 30, 1996 all injury-related ED visits among District of Columbia residents <3 years of age were ascertained at the 10 hospitals where city children routinely sought care. Information was abstracted from 2,938 injury-related, ED visits (132.7 visits/1,000 person-years). Based on this experience, suggestions to facilitate design of multihospital, injury surveillance in other locations are offered. Importantly, injury-related visits were reliably ascertained from ED logs, and for most variables, a systematic sample of injury-related visits was representative of the total injured population. However, there is a need for more complete documentation of circumstances surrounding injuries and for standardization of data elements on ED logs and treatment records.
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SN  - 0735-6757
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -