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Injury surveillance in construction: What is an “injury”, anyway?
American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 2003AbstractBackgroundOver the last decade, there has been a decline in injuries with days away from work in construction, associated with an increase in injuries with restricted work activity only.MethodsWe abstracted demographics, diagnosis, cause‐of‐injury, and hospital discharge information for 481 workers from one large construction project treated in
Laura S, Welch, Katherine, Hunting
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Community Childhood Injury Surveillance
Pediatric Emergency Care, 2004To describe the use of an emergency department (ED)-based injury surveillance model to determine the incidence and mechanisms of nonfatal injuries among children living in Cabrini Green, a poor urban community.Using ED records and census data, population-based injury rates were determined for a retrospective cohort of children, 0 to 14 years old, (N ...
Noel S, Zuckerbraun +5 more
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Sports Injury Surveillance Systems
Sports Medicine, 1997Sport is beneficial to health, but may also cause injuries. Therefore there is a need for sports injury prevention. Sports injury prevention should be based on the outcome of scientific research and should be part of the 'sequence of prevention'. In applying the 'sequence of prevention', first the incidence and severity of the sports injury problem ...
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Agricultural injury surveillance using a state injury registry
Journal of Safety Research, 1993Using injury surveillance data from the Oregon Injury Registry (OIR), investigators analyzed data on fatal and nonfatal, hospitalized agricultural injuries occurring in the state from 1988 through 1990. The purpose of the analysis was to assess the magnitude and nature of such injuries in order to target prevention efforts.
Thomas A. O'Connor +2 more
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Challenges for surveillance for injury prevention
Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 2004Injury surveillance has, and will continue to have, a critical role to play in reducing injury. If injury surveillance is going to realise its full potential in reducing injury, however, there are a number of challenges we need to address. These include: (1) agreeing on what is an injury, (2) focusing on important injuries, (3) improving surveillance ...
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Monitoring sharps injuries: EPINet™ surveillance results
Nursing Standard, 2004Sharps injuries are one of the main types of accident sustained by NHS staff. The RCN's Be Sharp Be Safe campaign was launched in 2001 with the aim of reducing sharps injuries and includes a surveillance project to describe the current pattern of sharps injuries being experienced in participating trusts.
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Southern Medical Journal, 1991
Mortality data traditionally have been used to describe the epidemiology of childhood injury. Fatal outcomes, however, represent less than 1% of injury events and thus provide a limited characterization of the problem. Future epidemiologic study resulting in injury prevention depends upon the development of morbidity-based injury surveillance systems. "
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Mortality data traditionally have been used to describe the epidemiology of childhood injury. Fatal outcomes, however, represent less than 1% of injury events and thus provide a limited characterization of the problem. Future epidemiologic study resulting in injury prevention depends upon the development of morbidity-based injury surveillance systems. "
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Firearm-related injury surveillance
American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 1998James A Mercy +2 more
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Public Health Surveillance for Firearm Injuries
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1999R, Hayes, E, LeBrun, K K, Christoffel
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