Open AccessEvaluation of first information reports of Delhi police for injury surveillance: Data extraction tool development & validation
Author(s) -
Sajjan Singh Yadav,
Phil Edwards,
John D. Porter
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of medical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.578
H-Index - 87
ISSN - 0971-5916
DOI - 10.4103/ijmr.ijmr_442_20
Subject(s) - data extraction , medicine , injury surveillance , reliability (semiconductor) , injury prevention , occupational safety and health , poison control , residence , medical emergency , environmental health , medline , demography , pathology , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , sociology , political science , law
: Policymakers and health professionals need to know the distribution, patterns, trends and risk factors of injury occurrence to develop strategies that reduce the incidence of injuries. The first information report (FIR) of Indian police is one potential source of this information. The aims of this study were to identify the minimum data set (MDS) recommended for injury surveillance, to develop a tool for data extraction from FIRs, to evaluate whether FIRs contain this MDS and to assess the inter-rater reliability of the tool.