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Session: Annual Exploration of Injury Data Issues
3330.0: Monday, November 05, 2007: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Roundtable
Annual Exploration of Injury Data Issues
This session will continue the tradition of the past decade of APHA meetings, where members discuss current issues in injury data. The following topics will be discussed at length: 1) operationalizing definitions from Healthy People 2010, 2) new features of WISQARS, 3) accurately defining poisonings, and 4) the work of ISW5 in updating the STIPDAGreen book on injury surveillance.
Learning Objectives: 1. Describe current challenges in collecting, managing, and sharing data on injuries. 2. Describe new features of the CDC’s WISQARS web-based application. 3. Describe nuances of classifying poisonings.
Moderator(s):Larry Cook, MStat
Table 1Annual exploration of injury data issues
Larry Cook, MStat, Jennifer Taylor, MPH, Joseph L. Annest, PhD, Lois Fingerhut, MA
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Injury Control and Emergency Health Services
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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