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Board of Directors
Dawn Comstock
Dawn Comstock is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Injury Research and Policy, Nationwide Children's Hospital and the Ohio State University, College of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics and College of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology.  She has experience working in public health at both the national and state level as well as in academia.  She has co-authored over 40 peer-reviewed...
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Centers
Colorado Injury Control Research Center
The purpose of the Colorado Injury Control Research Center (CICRC) is to reduce the occurrence, severity, and adverse consequences of injuries through research, education, and service.  Emphasis is placed on reducing disparities in injury outcomes through focusing on community partnerships among underserved populations, such as Native Americans, Hispanics and rural residents.   Core values...
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Facts
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

Burden of Injury

In 2004, 167,184 people died as a result of injury accounting for 7.0% of all deaths; 1.9 million hospitalizations were for injuries accounting for 6% of all hospital discharges; and 31 million initial visits for injuries were made to emergency departments accounting for 32% of all initial emergency department visits. 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

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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

 

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

 

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