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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.]


SAVIR's Injury Prevention Articles Archives

 

SAVIR's Injury Prevention Articles Archives

 

The new emphasis on implementing evidence-based interventions:
the end of research or a new beginning for partnerships?
Andrea C. Gielen, Shannon Frattaroli, Michael A. Yonas,
Richard W. Sattin, and Jeff Levi
December 2011 Issue


Injury research:
a perspective from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Linda C. Degutis, Richard W. Sattin
October 2011 Issue


Distracted driving among adolescents: challenges and opportunities
Annie A. Garner, Phillip R. Fine, Crystal A. Franklin, Richard W. Sattin, and Despina Stavrinos
August 2011 Issue


Preventing bicycle-related injuries: next steps
Frederick Rivara, Richard W. Sattin
June 2011 Issue


National public health week: focus on injury prevention
Susan Abramson, Georges C. Benjamin, Richard W. Sattin, and Andrea C. Gielen
April 2011 Issue


Concussion research: a public health priority
Douglas J. Weibe, R. Dawn Comstock, and Michael L. Nance
February 2011 Issue


Global injury surveillance: opportunities and challenges
Joyce C. Pressley and Michael J. Mello
December 2010 Issue


Advancing research in youth violence prevention
to inform evidence-based policy and practice
Tamara M Haegerich, Deborah Gorman-Smith, Douglas J Wiebe, Michael Yonas
October 2010 Issue


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


From SAVIR
Shannon Frattaroli, Nathan Yee, Keshia M. Pollack, Andrea C. Gielen
December 2009 Issue


From SAVIR
Michael J. Mello and Corinne Peek-Asa
October 2009 Issue


Help put "Injury" Prevention and Care back into Healthcare Reform
August 2009 Issue


Child Injury around the World:   A Global Research Agenda for Child Injury Prevention
June 2009 issue


Core Competencies for Injury and  Violence Prevention
April 2009 Issue


Translating Research into Practice:  Resources Available, Researchers Needed!
December 2008 Issue


SAVIR plans for a 2nd National Violence and Injury Research Conference
October 2008 Issue


Injury Research Advocacy a High Priority
August 2008 Issue


SAVIR makes Global Connections at World Injury Conference
June 2008 Issue


New Injury and Violence Research Website Open to the World
April 2008 Issue


National Injury & Violence Prevention Research Conference a Resounding Success
February 2008 Issue