NCJ Number
196820
Editor(s)
Y. Holder,
M. Peden,
E. Krug,
J. Lund,
G. Gururaj,
O. Kobusingye
Date Published
2001
Length
80 pages
Annotation
This manual, which is intended for researchers and practitioners throughout the world, provides practical advice on how to develop information systems for the collection of systematic data on injuries.
Abstract
In an effort to provide guidance for countries in which resources are scarce, the manual explains how to develop systems for collecting, coding, and processing data even when there is no electronic equipment, few staff, and/or staff with many other demands on their time and no expertise in research. After a brief overview of the aims and objectives of this manual, two sections provide an introduction to the terms, analytical tools, and methods used by injury surveillance specialists. Another section of the manual takes the reader step-by-step through the processes of designing an injury surveillance system. Individual modules for the surveillance of various types of injury at varying levels of detail, from core data to the optional add-ons, are provided. For each module, sample forms for recording information on individual cases and for assembling the information into data sets are included. Additional example sample forms are provided in the appendixes. 5 tables, 6 figures, and 13 references