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A spatial analysis of functional outcomes and quality of life outcomes after pediatric injury Bell, Nathaniel; Kruse, Sami; Simons, Richard K.; Brussoni, Mariana

Abstract

Background: Changes in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are more regularly being monitored during the first year after injury. Monitoring changes in HRQoL using spatial cluster analysis can potentially identify concentrations of geographic areas with injury survivors with similar outcomes, thereby improving how interventions are delivered or in how outcomes are evaluated. Conclusion: Monitoring patient health outcomes following injury is important for planning and targeting interventions. A common theme in the literature is that future prevention efforts may benefit from identifying those most a risk of developing ongoing problems after injury in effort to target resources to those most in need. Spatial scan statistics are tools that could be applied for identifying concentrations of poor recovery outcomes. By classifying outcomes as a categorical variable, clusters of ‘potentially low’ outcomes can also be mapped, thereby identifying populations whose recovery status may decrease.

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A spatial analysis of functional outcomes and quality of life outcomes after pediatric injury
Creator
Bell, Nathaniel; Kruse, Sami; Simons, Richard K.; Brussoni, Mariana
Contributor
B.C. Injury Research and Prevention Unit; Children's Hospital (Vancouver, B.C.).
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Date Issued
2014-07-24
Description
Background: Changes in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are more regularly being monitored during the first year after injury. Monitoring changes in HRQoL using spatial cluster analysis can potentially identify concentrations of geographic areas with injury survivors with similar outcomes, thereby improving how interventions are delivered or in how outcomes are evaluated. Conclusion: Monitoring patient health outcomes following injury is important for planning and targeting interventions. A common theme in the literature is that future prevention efforts may benefit from identifying those most a risk of developing ongoing problems after injury in effort to target resources to those most in need. Spatial scan statistics are tools that could be applied for identifying concentrations of poor recovery outcomes. By classifying outcomes as a categorical variable, clusters of ‘potentially low’ outcomes can also be mapped, thereby identifying populations whose recovery status may decrease.
Subject
Wounds and injuries; Spatial analysis; Quality of life; Epidemiology; Children and youth (0-19); Injury outcomes
Genre
Article
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2021-02-19
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0395923
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/77347
Affiliation
Medicine, Faculty of; Other UBC; Pediatrics, Department of; Population and Public Health (SPPH), School of; Surgery, Department of
Citation
Bell, N., Kruse, S., Simons, R.K. et al. A spatial analysis of functional outcomes and quality of life outcomes after pediatric injury. Inj. Epidemiol. 1, 16 (2014).
Publisher DOI
10.1186/s40621-014-0016-1
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty; Researcher
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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