All Wales Injury Surveillance System revised: development of a population-based system to evaluate single-level and multilevel interventions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Injury surveillance has been established since the 1990s, but is still largely based upon single-source data from sentinel sites. The growth of electronic health records and developments in privacy protecting linkage technologies provide an opportunity for more sophisticated surveillance systems.

Objective

To describe the evolution of an injury surveillance system to support the evaluation of interventions, both simple and complex in terms of organisation.

Methods

The paper describes the evolution of the system from one that relied upon data only from emergency departments to one that include multisource data and are now embedded in a total population privacy protecting data linkage system. Injury incidence estimates are compared by source and data linkage

SUBMITTER: Lyons RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4853534 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature