164005 Annual exploration of injury data issues

Monday, November 5, 2007

Larry Cook, MStat , Intermountain Injury Control Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Jennifer Taylor, MPH , Center for Injury Research and Policy, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
Joseph L. Annest, PhD , National Center for Injury Prevention and Control/OSP, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
Lois Fingerhut, MA , Office of Analysis and Epidemiology, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD
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:
increase data expertise among participants; address difficult issues and explore potential solutions; create networks of those committed to good data.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No
Any institutionally-contracted trials related to this submission?

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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