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Lab Partners

Board of Directors
Michael J. Mello
Michael J. Mello, MD, MPH is Director of the Injury Prevention Center at Rhode Island Hospital, an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Community Health, Co-Director of Community Health Clerkship at the Alpert School of Medicine of Brown University, and a practicing emergency medicine physician with University Emergency Medicine Foundation. Dr. Mello obtained a BA from Boston University...
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Centers
Injury Prevention Center at RI Hospital
The Injury Prevention Center at Rhode Island Hospital is focused on reducing injuries in our region. The Center conducts injury control research, develops and implements community-based injury prevention projects and educates health professionals, policy makers and the public about the burden of injury in Rhode Island. COMMUNITY OUTREACH As an Injury Free Coalition for Kids site, a program of the Robert...
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Facts
Motor Vehicle Injury

In 2004, motor vehicles in traffic crashes were the leading mechanism of injury death and falls were the leading mechanism of nonfatal injury. 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

Elderly

For older adults 65-74 years and 75 years and over, hospital discharge rates in 2004-2005 for injury among women were 1.4-1.7 times the rates for men. 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

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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