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Session: Injury Research Design and Methodology
5045.0: Wednesday, November 10, 2004: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Oral
Injury Research Design and Methodology
This session will present studies related to methodlogical issues in injury control and emergency medicine research.
Learning Objectives: Learn about methodological issues in injury control and emergency medicine research.
Moderator(s):Andrew E Lincoln, ScD, MS
8:30 AMCumulative disadvantage: Ethnic disparities in injury-related mortality across the age span
Joyce C. Pressley, PhD, MPH, Barbara Barlow, MD
8:45 AMMeasurement and interpretation of socioeconomic status/position in studies of racial/ethnic disparities in injuries: How can we do better?  [ Recorded presentation ]
Catherine Cubbin, PhD, Paula A. Braveman, MD, MPH, Kristen S. Marchi, MPH, Susan A. Egerter, PhD
9:00 AMUse of multiple source data to improve injury-related health disparities research: Methodological issues and lost opportunities
Joyce C. Pressley, PhD, MPH
9:15 AMMethodological issues in using narrative text analysis to define injury causes: Identifying falls from ladders  [ Recorded presentation ]
Gordon S. Smith, MD, MPH, Dheeresh K. Mamidi, MBBS, MPH, David A. Lombardi, PhD, Simon Matz, MS, Robert A Timmons, DO, MPH, Theodore K. Courtney, MS, CSP
9:30 AMEstimates of burn injury incidence derived from federal data sources  [ Recorded presentation ]
Peter A. Brigham, MSW, Angela Hesener Quinn, BS
9:45 AMValidity of administrative data for characterizing traumatic brain injury-related hospitalizations
Andrew Shore, PhD, Melissa McCarthy, ScD, Tracey Serpi, MS, Melanie Gertner, BS
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

The 132nd Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2004) of APHA