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Executive Summary : Injury Surveillance Pilot Project Evaluation Report Raina, Parminder; Soubhi, Hassan; Turcotte, Kate; Brussoni, Mariana; Janssen, Patricia A.; Hotte, Alan

Abstract

The purpose of this evaluation was to assess the implementation of the Injury Surveillance Pilot Project (ISPP) in its mission to describe the burden of injury among persons presenting at selected Emergency Departments (ED) in British Columbia. Overall, the ISPP with the Emergency Department Injury Surveillance System (EDISS) at its core was able to collect data that were for the most part error-free with a capture rate of over 82 percent. Recommendations include the need for continued funding to allow for data collection to continue, continued training of Health Records personnel to improve the coding of selected data elements, and continued automation of the database. Obstacles encountered include an overall provincial shortage of Health Records staff, the adoption of ICD-10 injury codes, and various job actions and contract negotiations with the provincial government. Overall, the evaluation provides a positive outlook for the ISPP.

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Executive Summary : Injury Surveillance Pilot Project Evaluation Report
Creator
Raina, Parminder; Soubhi, Hassan; Turcotte, Kate; Brussoni, Mariana; Janssen, Patricia A.; Hotte, Alan
Contributor
B.C. Injury Research and Prevention Unit
Date Issued
2002-06
Description
The purpose of this evaluation was to assess the implementation of the Injury Surveillance Pilot Project (ISPP) in its mission to describe the burden of injury among persons presenting at selected Emergency Departments (ED) in British Columbia. Overall, the ISPP with the Emergency Department Injury Surveillance System (EDISS) at its core was able to collect data that were for the most part error-free with a capture rate of over 82 percent. Recommendations include the need for continued funding to allow for data collection to continue, continued training of Health Records personnel to improve the coding of selected data elements, and continued automation of the database. Obstacles encountered include an overall provincial shortage of Health Records staff, the adoption of ICD-10 injury codes, and various job actions and contract negotiations with the provincial government. Overall, the evaluation provides a positive outlook for the ISPP.
Subject
Injury policy and prevention
Genre
Report
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2022-03-11
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0407121
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/80953
Affiliation
Medicine, Faculty of; Pediatrics, Department of
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty; Researcher
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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