• Pennsylvania Injury Morbidity Data Project
• Pennsylvania Injury Prevention Data Assistance Project
• Education

Pennsylvania Injury Morbidity Data Project

The purpose of this State sponsored project is to improve the ability of health officials and injury prevention practitioners to use injury morbidity data for planning and evaluation of programs and policies. CIRCL will obtain, format, edit, recode, analyze, report and assist with distribution of E-coded hospital data for 1997 - 1999 collected by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4), for research and information purposes. CIRCL will prepare annually

• A series of tabular county injury data profiles 

• A state level report containing tabular and graphical highlights of injury data by mechanism and intent of injury, severity, cost, payer source, sex, race and other factors important for state and local program planning. These will be aimed for web-based (adobe acrobat) publishing on the Department of Health's web site. 

• A series of short injury specific reports. The reports (designed mainly for electronic distribution) will focus on subjects to be determined by the Department in such areas as 1) self-inflicted injuries, 2) bicyclist related head injuries, 3) child (ages 0-17) injuries, 4) motorcyclist head injuries and 5) battering and maltreatment related injuries. Depending on the subject, data comparability and data availability, single or multiple years may be analyzed. While each report will vary in approach and content depending on subject matter, they shall all include hospitalized injury discharge data for the state and counties, descriptions of high risk population groups, and a short list of recommended prevention strategies.

Requests for aggregate data from the hospital discharge data can be obtained by completing a request form and submitting it to the Pennsylvania Department of Health for approval. Examples of previous similar reports published by the Department of Health can be downloaded from the PA DOH web site:  

	Injuries to Females in Pennsylvania
	Dog Bite Injuries in Pennsylvania, 1995
	Poisoning Injuries in Pennsylvania, 1995
	Assaultive Injuries in Pennsylvania, 1995
	Head and Spinal Cord Injuries in Pennsylvania, 1995
	Fall Injuries in Pennsylvania,1994
	Bicyclists Injuries in Pennsylvania: An Injury Profile Monograph
	Fire and Burn Injuries in Pennsylvania: An Injury Profile Monograph
	Injuries in Pennsylvania: Hospital Discharges, 1994-2001
	Pennsylvania Injury Data Resource Guide
	Injury-Related Behavioral Risks of Pennsylvanians

Pennsylvania Injury Prevention Data Assistance Project

The purpose of this project is to assist with data collection and interpretation task of selected injury prevention projects of the District Injury Prevention Coordinators. CIRCL will be performing data entry and analysis of about 200 smoke detector evaluation forms, 1,050 bike helmet user forms, bike helmet observational data from 10 low income housing units, and  300 trigger lock user forms. The second year, a data entry module shall be developed (Access, SPSS or Epi-Info) for each of these data forms so that the data entry can take place at the local level. CIRCL will be advising the department regarding the usefulness of the evaluation forms and the specific data elements as necessary.

Education

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