Where to start? Injury prevention priority scores for traumatic injuries in Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Given limited resources for injury prevention, it is essential to determine which mechanisms of injury to target to provide the most benefit to the largest proportion of the population. We developed objective, evidence-based injury prevention priority scores (IPPSs) for the Canadian population across 4 prevention perspectives: mortality, injury severity, resource use and societal cost.

Methods

We performed a retrospective cohort study of all injuries in Canada from 2009/10 to 2013/14. Hospital admissions were obtained from the Discharge Abstract Database, and deaths from the Statistics Canada Canadian Vital Statistics Death Database. For each mechanism of injury, we calculated an IPPS as a balanced measure of injury frequency and 1) mortality rate, 2) median 1 - I

SUBMITTER: Jessula S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9188798 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature