Development and Use of a Population Based Injury Surveillance System: the All Wales Injury Surveillance System (AWISS)

Overview

Journal Inj Prev

Specialties Emergency Medicine
Pediatrics
Public Health

Date 2002 Apr 4

PMID 11928983

Citations 16

Authors

R A Lyons

S Jones

A Kemp

J Sibert

J Shepherd

P Richmond

C Bartlett

S R Palmer

Affiliations

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Abstract

This report details the development and use of a population based emergency room surveillance system in the UK. Despite some difficulties in accessing high quality data the system has stimulated a considerable number of research and intervention projects. While surveillance systems with high quality data collection and coding parameters remain the gold standard, imperfect systems, particularly if population based, can play a substantial part in stimulating injury prevention initiatives.

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