+ A comparison of two surveillance systems for deaths related to violent injury
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Comstock, R. D. / Mallonee, S. / Jordan, F.
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- Injury Prevention
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Homicide, State, Suicide, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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HOMICIDE, Injury, Suicide, Unintentional, death
Data on violent injury deaths in Oklahoma in 2001 from the statewide Medical Examiner and the Vital Statistics Office were compared in an evaluation of the two surveillance systems. A total of 776 violent...
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+ Comparison of injury case Fatality rates in the United States and New Zealand
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Spicer, R. / Miller, T. / Langley, J. / Stephenson, S.
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- Injury Prevention
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Homicide, International
- Keywords:
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DEMOGRAPHY, Mortality, SURVEYS, UNITED States, Wounds & Injuries
The authors used hospital discharge data on inpatient stays and mortality data to calculate case fatality rates by mechanism and intent for a variety of injury types. Intentionally self-inflicted firearm...
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+ Australia's 1996 gun law reforms: faster falls in firearm deaths, firearm suicides, and a decade without mass shootings
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Chapman, S. / Alpers, P. / Agho, K. / Jones, M.
- Date:
- 2006
- Publication:
- Injury Prevention
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Homicide, Legislation and Policy, Suicide
- Keywords:
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ACCIDENTS -- Prevention, MORTALITY -- Statistics, MULTIVARIATE analysis, OUTCOME assessment (Medical care), SAFETY education
Data from the Australian National Injury Surveillance Unit on unintentional and intentional death caused by firearms for the years 1979-2003 was analyzed in an investigation of the impact of 1996 gun...
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+ Use of the modified Delphi technique to identify and rate home injury hazard risks and prevention methods for young children
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Katcher, M. L. / Meister, A. N. / Sorkness, C. A. / Staresinic, A. G. / Pierce, S. E. / Goodman, B. M. / Peterson, N. M. / Hartfield, P. M. / Schirmer, J. A.
- Date:
- 2006
- Publication:
- Injury Prevention
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional
- Keywords:
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CHILDREN -- Wounds & injuries, CHILDREN'S accidents, DELPHI method, ENVIRONMENTAL health, HOME accidents
34 injury prevention experts were interviewed using the Delphi method, a process aimed at achieving consensus among experts, to determine the most important injury hazards in each area of the home and...
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+ Police deaths in New York and London during the twentieth century
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Kyriacou, D. N. / Monkkonen, E. H. / Peek-Asa, C. / Lucke, R. E. / Labbett, S. / Pearlman, K. S. / Hutson, H. R.
- Date:
- 2006
- Publication:
- Injury Prevention
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Law Enforcement, Suicide, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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20th Century, London, New York, Occupational hazard, death
The authors investigated the circumstances of 585 police officers in New York City and 160 police officers in London who died while participating in law enforcement activities in the 20th century. Data...
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+ Determining objective injury prevention priorities
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Wiebe, D. J. / Nance, M. L. / Branas, C. C.
- Date:
- 2006
- Publication:
- Injury Prevention
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Surveillance/Data Collection, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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FIREARMS accidents, PREVENTION, PSYCHIC trauma, UNITED States, Wounds & Injuries
Data from the period 2000-2004 were obtained from the National Trauma Data Bank, and four injury prevention priority scores were computed: injury prevention priority score, mortality priority score, hospital...
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+ CDC's National Violent Death Reporting System: background and methodology
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Paulozzi LJ / Mercy J / Frazier L / Annest JL
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- Injury Prevention
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Homicide, Public Health, Suicide, Surveillance/Data Collection, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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NVDRS, report, violent death
The authors describe the goals and methods of a new surveillance called the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its objective is the collection...
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+ A quantification of preventable unintentional childhood injury mortality in the United States
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Philippakis A / Hemenway D / Alexe DM / Dessypris N / Spyridopoulos T / Petridou E
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- Injury Prevention
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Age Group, Public Health, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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Mortality, Northeast, Youth, demographic
The authors evaluated the extent to which unintentional childhood injury deaths in the U.S. were preventable, using state data from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control over the period...
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+ Underestimates of unintentional firearm fatalities: comparing Supplementary Homicide Report data with the National Vital Statistics System
- Author:
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Barber, C. / Hemenway, D. / Hochstadt, J. / Azrael, D.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- Injury Prevention
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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Cause of Death, EPIDEMIOLOGY, Firearms, HOMICIDE, Wounds
The authors compared the way unintentional firearm injuries that were identified in police Supplementary Homicide Report (SHR) data from 1997 were coded in the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS)...
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+ Risk Factors Associated with Non-Fatal Adolescent Firearm Injuries
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Paris, C. A. / Edgerton, E. A. / Sifuentes, M. / Seidel, J. S. / Lewis, R. J. / Gausche, M.
- Date:
- 2002
- Publication:
- Injury Prevention
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Accidents/Unintentional, Age Group, Ethnicity
- Keywords:
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Adolescent, Case-control study, Firearms, Risk Factors, Washington
In this case-control study, the authors compared 45 patients (aged 11-18 years) who visited a level I trauma center’s emergency department for treatment of non-fatal firearm injuries (cases) with 50 patients...
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+ People and guns involved in denied and completed handgun sales
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Wright, M. A. / Wintemute, G. J. / Claire, B. E.
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- Injury Prevention
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Age Group, Crime, State, Supply
- Keywords:
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AMMUNITION, PISTOLS, UNITED States, Violence
Using data on handgun sales and denials in California from 1998 to 2000, the authors found that compared with handguns in completed sales, handguns in denied sales were more like guns used in crime. They...
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