Agenda for October 22-24, 2014 Meeting of the International Collaborative Effort on Injury Statistics and Methods

Washington, DC

Wednesday October 22, 2014, through Friday, October 24, 2014.

Wednesday October 22: 8:00 – 8:30 Registration

1.Welcome, introductions, opening remarks

  1. Holly Hedegaard, CDC/National Center for Health Statistics, US
  2. Charles Rothwell, Director, CDC/National Center for Health Statistics, US
  3. Ronan Lyons, Swansea University, Wales

(9:00 – 10:15)

2. Session 1: Introduction to the Grand Research Challenge: Global collaboration in measuring the incidence and burden of injuries

  1. Ronan Lyons, Swansea University, Wales
  2. Global Injury Data Portal of the OECD Working Party on Consumer Product Safety
  3. Richard O’Brien, Director of International Programs and Intergovernmental Affairs, Consumer Product Safety Commission, US
  4. 10:15 to 10:45 Break

(10:45 – 12:00)

3.Session 2: The Validating and Improving Injury Burden Estimates Study (VIBES

  1. Belinda Gabbe, Monash University, Australia
  2. James Harrison, Flinders University, Australia
  3. Ronan Lyons, Swansea University, Wales
  4. 12:00 – 13:00 Lunch (on your own)

(13:00 – 14 :30)

4. Session 3: Understanding the injury burden: Country-specific estimates and approaches

  1. Exploring discrepancies in the GBD-2010 mortality estimates of road injuries in OECD countries Kavi Bhalla, Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit, US
  2. The burden of injury in Sudan: Building estimates of incidence and mortality from existing data sources Safa Abdalla, Sudanese Public Health Consultancy Group, Sudan
  3. Regional system of standardized indicators in peaceful coexistence and citizen security: RIC-project funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Maria Isabel Gutierrez, Instituto CISALVA, Universidad del Valle, Columbia
  4. Analysis of South African injury mortality based on the first national representative sample: a retrospective study of post-mortem investigations Richard Matzopoulos, University of Cape Town, South Africa
  5. 14:30 – 14:45 Beak

(14:45 – 16:00)

5. Session 4: World Health Organization global initiatives

  1. Update on global activities (Global Burn registry, Implementation of the WHO/MONASH Fatal Injury Surveillance manual) (update only)
  2. 2012 verbal autopsy instrument: injury section cognitive testing and piloting in Kenya (update and discussion) Kidist Bartolomeos, World Health Organization Erin Nichols, CDC/National Center for Health Statistics, US Paul Scanlon, CDC/National Center for Health Statistics, US

(16:00 – 17:00)

6. Session 5: Update on the International Classification of Diseases, 11th Revision

  1. James Harrison, Flinders University, Australia

17:00 – 17: 15 First day wrap-up, close for the day

Thursday October 23, 8:15 – 8:30 Welcome to Day 2

(8:30 – 9:45)

7. Session 6: Standardized methods for measuring injury severity

  1. Combining hospital and pre-hospital data for evaluation of severity: considerations on importance in relation to level 1 and 2 trauma centres Frederik Borup Danielsson, University of Southern Denmark
  2. ICISS and onward: The Trauma Mortality Prediction Model (TMPM)
  3. Turner Osler, University of Vermont, US
  4. Alan Cook, University of Arizona, US
  5. 9:45 – 10:15 Break

(10:15 to 11:45)

8.Session 7: Data linkage and data mining methodologies

  1. Using record linkage to examine injury across the lifespan Rebecca Mitchell, University of New South Wales, Australia
  2. Linking trauma registry with National Death Index: Why are some inhospital deaths missing? Gordon Smith/Danielle Abraham, University of Maryland, US
  3. Advances in mining text-based injury surveillance data Kirsten Vallmuur, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
  4. Data linkage, text mining, and policy needs: Firefighter non-fatal injury surveillance as exemplar Jennifer Taylor, Drexel University, US

Panel Discussion

(11:45 – 13:00 Lunch on your own)

(13:00 – 15:00)

9. Session 8: Injury indicators and reporting frameworks

  1. Paediatric injury indicators Ian Pike, British Columbia Injury Research and Prevention Unit, Canada Alison Macpherson, York University, Canada
  2. Monitoring injuries in Norway: the development of national and regional injury indicators Eyvind Ohm, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway
  3. Subsequent injury categorisation (SIC) model for sports injuries Caroline Finch, Australian Centre for Research into Injury in Sport and its Prevention (ACRISP), Australia
  4. ICD-10-CM External Cause Matrix Lee Annest, CDC/National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, US
  5. ICD-10-CM Injury Diagnosis Matrix Holly Hedegaard, CDC/National Center for Health Statistics, US

(15:00 – 15:45)

10. Session 9: Improving data collection on fatal and non-fatal occupational injuries

  1. Results from the US effort to collect industry and occupation codes in healthcare data Jennifer Taylor, Drexel University, US
  2. Improving data collection on fatal and non-fatal occupational injuries John Myers, CDC/National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, US

15:45 – 16:00 second day wrap-up, plan for day 3, close for the day

Friday October 24, 8:15 – 8:30 Welcome to Day 3

(8:30 – 10:00)

11. Session 10: Future plans for the Grand Research Challenge: Global collaboration in measuring the incidence and burden of injuries

  1. Determine research priorities/plans: 4 proposed breakout sessions

A. Measurement of incidence

1. How do estimates of fatal and non-fatal injury incidence compare between surveys, sources of routine health service utilization data, and focused injury studies?

  1. Are relationships between incidence metrics of non-fatal injuries derived from parallel data sources sufficiently robust to support predictive models?
  2. Can mortality data be used to estimate incidence data in countries or regions with little or no incidence data?

3. Which indicators of injury incidence/frameworks should be recommended for international work?

B. Data Linkage/Text analysis methodologies

4. How can linked data be used to enhance measurement of the incidence of injury?

5. To what extent can textual data mining methodologies contribute to measurement of the incidence of injuries?

C. Disability/Burden of injury methodologies

6. What is the impact of using different disability weight metrics on estimating the population burden of injuries?

7. Which aspects of the code-sets and rules that comprise ICD-10, ICD-11 and their clinical modifications are important for measuring the burden of injuries?

8. Can injury measurement be improved by means of guidelines or recommendations for the use of ICD-coded data and/or by means of specific changes to the ICD code-sets and rules?

D. Other/TBC

9. Standardized methods for measuring injury severity

10. Other ideas arising during the conference

10:00 – 10:15 Break

(10:15 – 11:45)

12. Session 11: Report back from breakout sessions and discussion of next steps

11:45 – 12:00

Closing remarks

Ronan Lyons, Swansea University, Wales

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