Epidemiologists and pediatricians from the University of Washington and a trauma surgeon, also in Seattle, offer researchers a guide to study methods for investigating and evaluating evidence-based injury prevention and control strategies. They include information about choices in designing and executing a study, and discuss specific tools such as injury severity scales, program evaluations, and systematic reviews. Among the specific topics are data linkages and using administrative and secondary databases, qualitative methods, cohort studies, ecological studies, and measuring post-injury disability and quality of life. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Injury Control: A Guide to Research and Evaluation provides a comprehensive source of information on all of the research methodologies available to investigators and clinicians involved in the field.
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.
