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The aim
of this project is to develop a
methodology to measure the burden of injury in the UK.
Principal
investigators and researchers
Swansea: Ronan Lyons,
Sinead Brophy, Ceri Phillips
Surrey: Nicola Christie, Jude Sleney
Nottingham: Denise Kendrick, Lindsay Groome, Carol Coupland
West of England: Elizabeth Towner
Child Accident Prevention Trust: Michael Hayes
A considerable number of clinicians
are also involved with the study at
the various sites.
Methodology
A prospective multi-centred longitudinal study with database modelling,
including:
- the development and piloting of instruments;
- a prospective study of at least 1300 injured people
recruited at hospitals in Swansea, Surrey, Bristol and Nottingham
- data collection including demographic factors,
pre-existing illness, quality of life and health service
utilization, post-injury quality of life, disability, work
limitations and health service utilization collected until return to
normal function or at 1, 4 and 12 months post-injury, and measures
of injury severity; and
- derivation of the UK burden of injury from data modelling from injured participants to
local, regional and national accident and emergency and in-patient
databases and mortality data.
Time
frame
October 2004 – Mar 2008
Funding source
Department of Health
A paper on the methodology has been
published:
Lyons RA, Towner EM, Kendrick D, Christie N, Brophy
S, Phillips CJ, Coupland C, Carter R, Groom L, Sleney J, Evans PA,
Pallister I, Coffey F. The UK Burden of Injury Study - a protocol.
BMC Public Health 2007; 7:317.
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