Injury prevention resources
Finding evidence
Systematic reviews, injury reports and best practice guides can provide a convenient summary of the key data and /or credible evidence available for a particular injury topic from a larger body of research literature. This avoids the need to wade through copious amounts of literature or data from a variety of sources. However, creating effective prevention programs involves the art of combining the best available evidence with the real-world experience of practitioners.1 These injury prevention resources can provide credible information that can help in designing injury prevention programs and strategies.
Injury reports
Injury reports listed below are summaries of national or regional data available on key child injury topic(s), an outline of what works to prevent injuries for each injury, and calls to action for further changes needed to keep children safe.
Safe Kids Canada reports
- Child and youth unintentional injury,1994-2003, 10 years in review
- Child and youth unintentional injury, Atlantic Canada, 10 years in review
Other reports
- World Report on Child Injury Prevention
- Child and youth injury in review, 2009 edition - Spotlight on consumer product safety
- The Public Health Agency of Canada released Injury in Review 2011 - Spotlight on Road and Transport Safety: Select Results, at the 2011 Canadian Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference in Vancouver. The launch of the full version of the report is anticipated for the spring of 2012.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention newly released report, Nonfatal Traumatic Brain Injuries Related to Sports and Recreation Activities Among Persons Aged ≤19 Years — United States, 2001–2009, published in the October 7th issue of CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Best practice guides are created through evidence-based suggestions that contain both findings from systematic reviews and agreement from experts and stakeholders.2
Safe Kids Canada guides
- Making It Happen - A Community Resource (pdf)
- Safer Homes for Children (A Guide for Communities) (pdf)
- On the Right Track for Rail Safety - A Community Resource (pdf)
Other guides
EuroSafe - Child Safety Good Practice Guide
The guide provides injury prevention stakeholders with evidence-based strategy options that address child injury within the areas of education, environment and enforcement. It also has a selection of case studies that illustrate programs in Europe that have applied these strategies and lessons learned for their application.
Systematic reviews share evidence behind a specific health issue by giving a summary of research from multiple sources that is systematically gathered, reviewed and evaluated against pre-established criteria.3 Systematic reviews help reduce bias, resolve controversy between different findings and provides reliable source for decision-making.
Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center Best Practices
This website includes reviews of studies that have been evaluated using some type of comparison group, and measure specific outcomes using injury indicators like deaths, hospitalizations and or observed behaviour change. Studies that measure changes in attitudes, beliefs, self-reported behaviours or knowledge are excluded from the review.
The Cochrane Library Reviews
The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases and systematic reviews that contain high-quality, independent evidence that can inform healthcare decision-making.
Health evidence
Health evidence is an online registry of systematic reviews on the effectiveness of public health and health promotion interventions, including injury prevention and safety.
Centers for disease control and prevention (CDC)- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
The CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control is the lead national agency in the United States for injury prevention. The Center’s website lists injury reports and research summaries on a large number of unintentional and intentional injury topics.
Journals
Injury Prevention journal
This is an international journal dedicated to injury prevention and includes peer-reviewed articles that focus on injury for all ages. Furthermore, Injury Prevention regularly includes a News and Notes section and many other special features including brief reports, editorials, commentaries, policy forums, fillers, book reviews, and correspondence.
Injury research databases
SafetyLit
SafetyLit is an injury research database that provides a weekly e-mail update with summaries of research articles and reports on injury prevention from a variety of disciplines that are relevant to preventing unintentional injuries, violence, and self-harm. SafetyLit service scans more than 3,000 scholarly international journals, conference proceedings, government and agency reports to develop these summaries.
PubMed
PubMed is the U.S. National Library Medicine's freely available database of medical literature and can be used to search injury research.
PubMed Central Canada
Pub Med Central Canada is a new initiative launched in 2009 that provides free access to peer-reviewed Canadian health and life sciences literature, including CIHR-funded research.
Endnotes
1 Brussoni M, Towner E, Hayes M. Evidence into practice: combining the art and science of injury prevention. Injury Prevention. Inj Prev 2006; 12(6): 373-7.
2 Raina P. Evidence-based injury prevention: is it necessary? Retrieved May 20, 2007 from BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit
3 Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field. Retrieved March 07, 2007 from http://www.ph.cochrane.org/en/localrevs.html
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