Injury Control
A Guide to Research and Program Evaluation
Published on 18. January 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-521-10024-3 (ISBN)
Description
In the twentieth-century, evidence-based injury prevention and control strategies have contributed to a substantial decline in the number of deaths associated with injury. However, researchers in the field of injury prevention have often gathered their study methods from other disciplines; it can be difficult for injury investigators to locate all of the research tools that can be applied to problems related to injury. Injury Control: A Guide to Research and Program Evaluation addresses the growing need for a comprehensive source of knowledge on all research designs available for injury control and research. Included in this accessible guidebook is information about choices in study design, details about study execution and discussion of specific tools such as injury severity scales, programme evaluations and systematic reviews. Epidemiologists, health service investigators, trauma surgeons and emergency medicine physicians will find this a useful source for understanding, reviewing and conducting research related to injuries.
Reviews / Votes
"A very useful and thoughtful compendium...the strenght of this book is in its breadth of coverage of issues that concern research in injury control. Although not mentioned as a potential audience, students and others new to the subject would find this a very useful text in a course on injury epidemiology and control." American Journal of Epidemiology "Injury Control--A guide to Research and Program Evaluation is the fifth landmark text--one destined to propel the discipline to the next level. It is comprehensive, well written, and carefully edited. The editors are internationally eminent experts, all of whom are American, but the book has a welcome international flavor." International Journal of Epidemiology "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." BMJMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
31 Tables, unspecified; 22 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
555 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-10024-3 (9780521100243)
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Frederick P. Rivara | Peter Cummings | Thomas D. Koepsell
Injury Control
A Guide to Research and Program Evaluation
Book
11/2000
Cambridge University Press
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Content
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.