Injury Control: A Guide to Research and Program Evaluation

ISBN 10: 0521661528 / ISBN 13: 9780521661522

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Injury Control: A Guide to Research and Program Evaluation
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521661528
• ISBN 13: 9780521661522
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Modern evidence-based injury prevention and control strategies have contributed to a substantial decline in the number of deaths associated with injury. Injury Control: Research and Program Evaluation addresses the growing need for a single comprehensive source of data on all research designs available for injury control and research. This accessible guidebook includes information on research tools such as injury severity scales, conducting program evaluations and trauma audits, systematic reviews, and ecologic studies. Epidemiologists and health service investigators, as well as trauma surgeons and emergency medicine physicians who provide the post-acute care of trauma patients, will find this the only current information source focused on injury control research and evaluation.

Book Description

Evidence-based injury prevention and control strategies have contributed to a substantial decline in the number of deaths associated with injury. Researchers studying these strategies are in need of a comprehensive source of information on all of the research methodologies available to them. Injury Control: A Guide to Research and Evaluation addresses this growing need and provides information on research tools such as injury severity scales, conducting program evaluations and trauma audits, and systematic reviews.Epidemiologists, health service investigators, trauma surgeons and emergency medicine physicians will find this the only information source available to guide them through injury research and evaluation.