Injury Control A Guide to Research and Program Evaluation [Hardcover]

A useful source for understanding, reviewing and conducting research related to injuries.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.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.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 evaluatl"