TY - JOUR
T1 - Injury surveillance in the ED
T2 - Design, implementation, and analysis
AU - Brenner, Ruth A.
AU - Scheidt, Peter C.
AU - Rossi, Maryann W.
AU - Cheng, Tina L.
AU - Overpeck, Mary D.
AU - Boenning, Douglas A.
AU - Wright, Joseph L.
AU - Kavee, Jill D.
AU - Boyle, Kerrie E.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
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.
AB - 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.
KW - Data collection
KW - Emergency department
KW - Population surveillance
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U2 - 10.1053/ajem.2002.32639
DO - 10.1053/ajem.2002.32639
M3 - Article
C2 - 11992337
AN - SCOPUS:0036255256
SN - 0735-6757
VL - 20
SP - 181
EP - 187
JO - American Journal of Emergency Medicine
JF - American Journal of Emergency Medicine
IS - 3
ER -