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Board of Directors
Cori Peek-Asa
Cori Peek-Asa, PhD, is a Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health, Director of the University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center, and Director of the International Collaborative Trauma and Injury Training Program in Central Europe. Dr. Peek-Asa is an epidemiologist who specializes in the evaluation of injury prevention programs. She has funded studies evaluating prevention strategies...
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Centers
Center for Injury Research and Control
CIRCL is an interdisciplinary academic research program involving many schools and departments at the University of Pittsburgh. The Center conducts and promotes injury control research, gathers and disseminates information on injuries, provides training for health professionals, and informs public and community leaders on injury control issues. CIRCL was established in July 1992. In September, 1995...
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Facts
Body Region

Extremity injuries accounted for the greatest proportion of injuries classified by body region ranging from 48% in hospitals to 50% in emergency departments to 63% reported in a household survey that asks about medically-attended injuries. Source: CDC/NCHS, Bergen G,Chen LH, Warner M, Fingerhut LA. Injury in the United States: 2007. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2008

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.]

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

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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

 

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