the development of an evaluation framework for injury surveillance systems发展评价框架的损伤监测系统.pdf

BMC Public Health BioMed Central Research article Open Access The development of an evaluation framework for injury surveillance systems Rebecca J Mitchell*1,2, Ann M Williamson1,3 and Rod OConnor2,4 Address: 1NSW Injury Risk Management Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 3Department of Aviation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and 4Rod OConnor Associates Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia Email: Rebecca J Mitchell* - r.mitchell@.au; Ann M Williamson - a.williamson@.au; Rod OConnor - r.oconnor@.au * Corresponding author Published: 23 July 2009 Received: 28 October 2008 Accepted: 23 July 2009 BMC Public Health 2009, 9:260 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-9-260 This article is available from: /1471-2458/9/260 © 2009 Mitchell et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Access to good quality information from injury surveillance is essential to develop and monitor injury prevention activities. To determine if information obtained from surveillance is of high quality, the limitations and strengths of a surveillance system are often examined. Guidelines have been developed to assist in evaluating certain types of surveillance