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Action indicators for injury prevention

Author(s) -

J Morag MacKay,

Alison Macpherson,

Ian Pike,

Joanne Vincenten,

Rod McClure

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

injury prevention

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.745

H-Index - 83

eISSN - 1475-5785

pISSN - 1353-8047

DOI - 10.1136/ip.2008.021444

Subject(s) - confusion , risk analysis (engineering) , poison control , occupational safety and health , action (physics) , human factors and ergonomics , injury prevention , presentation (obstetrics) , performance indicator , preventive action , process management , management science , computer science , engineering , business , environmental health , computer security , medicine , psychology , marketing , physics , pathology , quantum mechanics , psychoanalysis , radiology

There is considerable confusion about the nature of indicators, their use in the injury field and surprisingly little discussion about these important tools. To date discussions of injury indicators have focused on the content and presentation of health outcome measures and on the dearth of data on exposure measures. Whereas these are valuable measures and assessing the optimal use of available routinely collected data in forming indicators is important, they do not provide sufficient information to support comprehensive prevention efforts, nor do they harness the full potential of indicators as tools to support prevention efforts. This paper provides an overview of the characteristics and uses of indicators for the field of injury prevention in order to make the case for action indicators and provide a framework for their appropriate use.

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