Injury Control: A Guide to Research and Program Evaluation

ISBN-13: 9780521661522 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 316 str.

Frederick P. Rivara; Peter Cummings; Thomas Koepsell

Opis

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 this the only current information source focused on injury control research and evaluation.

Recenzje

"No source ... had the breadth of coverage, utility, or convenience of this primer. Moreover, none offered such good examples to illustrate the research applications ... Injury Conctrol is at its strongest." BMJ

Spis treści

1. An Overview of Injury Research Frederick P. Rivara; 2. Classifying and Counting Injury Lois A. Fingerhut and Elizabeth McLoughlin; 3. Measurement of Injury Severity and Co-morbidity Grant O'Keefe and Gregory J. Jurkovich; 4. Data Linkages and Using Administrative and Secondary Databases Beth A. Mueller; 5. Rates, Rate Denominators and Rate Comparisons Peter Cummings, Robyn Norton and Thomas D. Koepsell; 6. Data Collection Methods Carol W. Runyan and J. Michael Bowling; 7. Selecting a Study Design for Injury Research Thomas D. Koepsell; 8. Qualitative Methods in Injury Research David C. Grossman and Lorna Rhodes; 9. Randomised Trials Thomas D. Koepsell; 10. Cohort Studies in Injury Research Jess F. Kraus; 11. Case-Control Studies in Injury Research Peter Cummings, Thomas D. Koepsell and Ian Roberts; 12. Ecologic Studies Ralph Hingson, Jonathan Howland, Thomas D. Koepsell and Peter Cummings; 13. Case Studies and Trauma Registries Charles Mock; 14. Systematic Reviews of Injury Studies Frances Bunn, Carolyn G. DiGuiseppe and Ian Roberts; 15. Evaluating an Injury Intervention or Program Robert S. Thompson and Jeffrey J. Sacks; 16. The Development of Clinical Decision Rules for Injury Care Ian G. Stiell; 17. Trauma Performance Improvement Ronald V. Maier and Michael Rhodes; 18. Measuring Disability and Quality of Life Post-injury Ellen J. MacKenzie; 19. Economic Evaluation of Injury Control John D. Graham and Maria Segui-Gomez; 20. Ethical Issues Helen McGough and Marsha E. Wolf; Index.