The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Abstract #39220

Elizabeth McLoughlin, ScD, Trauma Foundation, San Francisco General Hospital, Bldg 1, 1001 Potrero, San Francisco, CA 94110, 415-821-8209, liz@tf.org, Lois Fingerhut, MA, Office of Analysis, Epidemiology and Health Promotion, NCHS/CDC, 6525 Belcrest Road, Room 750, Hyattsville, MD 20782, and J Lee Annest, PhD, NCIPC/CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, NE MS-K59, Atlanta, GA 30341-3724.

This session will continue the tradition of the past decade of APHA meetings, where section members discuss current issues in injury data. The following topics will be addressed: 1) Dealing with ICD-10 (ICD-9/ICD-10 Comparability Study, ICD-10 matrix, user complications arising from ICD-10 mortality data). 2) Using WISQARS (strengths and limitations for data analysis of fatal and nonfatal injuries) 3) Improving injury surveillance at the state level (injury indicators project, CDC/STIPDA surveillance workgroup efforts to improve state-based injury morbidity surveillance). 4) Improving international injury surveillance (WHO world violence prevention report, WHO injury surveillance guidelines, ICECI, ICE projects) 5) Exploring new key data issues (linking nature of injury with body region - Barell matrix; improving data on health outcomes (e.g., disability) and costs of injury; assessing unconventional data collection systems for policy change, and others which may arise in 2002)

Learning Objectives: Session objectives

• increase injury data expertise among APHA members;
• draw on participants' expertise to improve data systems & uses;
• address difficult issues and explore potential solutions;
• create active networks among injury data providers & users.

Keywords: Data/Surveillance, Injury Prevention

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.