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Board of Directors
Richard W. Sattin
Richard Sattin is Professor and Research Director, Department of Emergency Medicine and Professor, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia. During his 25 years at the CDC, most recently as Associate Director for Science, Division of Injury Response, NCIPC, he mentored and trained many persons in injury surveillance, prevention, and acute injury care. Dr. Sattin has published over 75 original...
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Centers
Firearm & Injury Center at Penn
    The Firearm & Injury Center at Penn (FICAP) seeks to create safer communities through the systemic reduction of injury and violence, and their repercussions to the individual, family and society.  To meet its mission, the Center facilitates the development of interdisciplinary injury science: stimulating research, translating science into practice, and disseminating information...
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Facts
Leading Mechanisms

Motor vehicle traffic fatalities are the leading mechanism of death for most ages. Poisonings were the leading mechanism for persons 34-53 years of age, and falls were the leading mechanism for those 73 years of age and over. 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

Diagnosis Types

In 2004-2005, fractures were the leading diagnosis for hospital discharges for injury accounting for 53% of all injuries, followed by system-wide injuries (16%), and internal organ injuries (12%). 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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