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Board of Directors
Michael Yonas
Michael Yonas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Concentrating on the health and safety needs of children and adolescents, his research employs an ecological-sensitive perspective for understanding and promoting health of individuals and communities.  Michael’s commitment to exploring and preventing youth violence is influenced...
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Centers
Mt. Sinai Injury Control Research Center
  Mount Sinai Injury Control Research Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City is the newest CDC Injury Control Research Center. They will conduct research on persons with traumatic brain injury to better understand the consequences of their injury and needs and to enhance the quality of their lives.   Four research studies will be implemented: (1) A randomized...
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Facts
US Burden

Injuries that occurred in 2000 cost the US health care system $1.1 billion for fatal injuries, $33.7 billion for injury hospitalizations, $31.8 billion for injury emergency department visits, and $13.6 billion for other outpatient visits. [Finkelstein EA, Corso PS, Miller TR. The Incidence and Economic Burden of Injuries in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.]

Costs

Insurance costs and out-of-pocket spending for all medical services are quantified by the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), a nationally-representative survey of the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population. MEPS reported that injuries in 2000 contributed to 10% of U.S. medical expenditures; when MEPS percentages were applied to the annual National Health Accounts data (which trace expenditures within the health care system), injury-related medical expenditures were estimated to cost Americans $117 billion each year.

Progress through Partnerships

2011 Joint Annual Meeting
of the
Safe States Alliance,
SAVIR, & CDC Core I & II
State Injury Grantees
April 6-8, 2011  Iowa City, IA

Submit an Abstract
for the 2011 Joint Annual Meeting



Injury Prevention

 
From SAVIR in Injury Prevention 

Field triage: optimising injury outcomes through use
of a revised on-scene decision-making protocol
Vikas Kapil, Richard W. Sattin, Scott Sasser, Lisa C. McGuire, Richard Hunt
August 2010 Issue

It wouldn't hurt to walk:  promoting pedestrian injury research
David A. Sleet, Keshia Pollack, Fred Rivara,
Shannon Frattaroli, Corinne Peek-Asa
June 2010 Issue

The translation imperative:  moving research into policy
Keshia Pollack, Alice Samuels, Shannon Frattaroli, Andrea C. Gielen
April 2010 Issue

Emergency medicine and injury research:  challenges and opportunities
Brendan G. Carr, Michael J. Mello
February 2010 Issue


SAVIR's Injury Prevention Articles Archives

 

 SAVIR's Official Journal is Injury Prevention, a member of the BMJ Publishing Group

 

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