TY - JOUR
T1 - Biomechanical Epidemiology
T2 - A New Approach to Injury Control Research
AU - Winston, Flaura K.
AU - Schwarz, Donald F.
AU - Baker, Susan P.
PY - 1996/5
Y1 - 1996/5
N2 - Injury control studies, from inception and design to dissemination of results, tend to remain within individual disciplines. This is largely because each of the disciplines has a unique language and approach to research. Collaborative research is often performed serially with one discipline presenting the results of that discipline's studies to another discipline. Epidemiologists and clinicians tell engineers to design a safety technology to prevent a specific injury. Engineers tell lawyers what is feasible to include in standards. As a result, epidemiological studies lack mechanical data needed by the engineers and engineering studies lack generalizability. The procedure for incorporating the best of multiple disciplines throughout the performance of injury control studies has not existed until recently and is presented conceptually in this manuscript. This new approach, Biomechanical Epidemiology, is an exciting enhancement to current injury control research.
AB - Injury control studies, from inception and design to dissemination of results, tend to remain within individual disciplines. This is largely because each of the disciplines has a unique language and approach to research. Collaborative research is often performed serially with one discipline presenting the results of that discipline's studies to another discipline. Epidemiologists and clinicians tell engineers to design a safety technology to prevent a specific injury. Engineers tell lawyers what is feasible to include in standards. As a result, epidemiological studies lack mechanical data needed by the engineers and engineering studies lack generalizability. The procedure for incorporating the best of multiple disciplines throughout the performance of injury control studies has not existed until recently and is presented conceptually in this manuscript. This new approach, Biomechanical Epidemiology, is an exciting enhancement to current injury control research.
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U2 - 10.1097/00005373-199605000-00024
DO - 10.1097/00005373-199605000-00024
M3 - Review article
C2 - 8614087
AN - SCOPUS:0030139751
SN - 0022-5282
VL - 40
SP - 820
EP - 824
JO - Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care
JF - Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care
IS - 5
ER -