JUNE 2003 - Alberta Centre for Injury Control & Research

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Goal 5 Increase research and program evaluation on injury causes, injury programs and practices 5 Objective 5.2 Evaluations will be an integral component of all injury control programs and services. Research and Evaluation Outcome Indicator Current Status Target Number of injury control programs and services evaluated. Number of organizations integrating evidencebased practices into their injury control programs based on program evaluations. No data available No data available Establish baseline Establish baseline Recommended Actions • Facilitate evaluations of new and existing injury control programs and initiatives. • Facilitate and support development and continuous improvement of evaluation knowledge and skills among those providing injury control programs. • Support the continuous improvement of injury control programs and initiatives through the evaluation feedback loop. • Identify and disseminate information on effective injury control practices based on program evaluations. Making Alberta the Safest Place to Live 44
Goal 6 Optimize emergency response, acute care 6 and rehabilitation services to those who are affected by injury Objective 6.1 Emergency response, acute care and rehabilitation programs will provide comprehensive injury assessments and transport, acute hospital care and quality rehabilitative care to those persons injured, their families and other significant supports. Emergency Response, Acute Care and Rehabilitation Outcome Indicator Current Status Target Reduction in hospitalization rates due to trauma Reduction in mortality from trauma Reduction in missed injury rate Compliance with transport times Trauma hospitalization admission rate: rate of hospitalizations due to trauma per 10,000 population: 88.3 (1999) Source: National Trauma Registry, 1999 Trauma mortality rate: rate of mortality due to trauma per 100,000 population: 50.3 (1997) Source: Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, Health Protection Branch, Health Canada, 1997 Missed injury rate: rate of missed injuries due to trauma: provincial rate unknown. Transport time compliance: transport time from injury to tertiary care: provincial compliance times unknown 70 per 10,000 40 per 100,000 Less than 10% 90% compliance Making Alberta the Safest Place to Live 45
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Page 3 and 4: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Alberta Injury
Page 5 and 6: What are the injury control issues?
Page 7 and 8: Focus on the future—making Albert
Page 9 and 10: Outcome indicator Current status Ta
Page 11 and 12: Recommended Actions • Develop and
Page 13 and 14: Recommended Actions • Implement t
Page 15 and 16: Making Alberta the Safest Place to
Page 17 and 18: Figure 1 Injury control model BACKG
Page 19 and 20: PURPOSE OF THE ALBERTA INJURY CONTR
Page 21 and 22: Injuries may be further understood
Page 23 and 24: Table 2 (continued) Application of
Page 25 and 26: Table 3 Number of child injury deat
Page 27 and 28: Other highlights 10 specific to inj
Page 29 and 30: Challenge 2 Under-developed coordin
Page 31 and 32: Challenge 6 Limited research and pr
Page 33 and 34: Figure 3 Overview of the Alberta In
Page 35 and 36: MISSION Contribute to a healthy Alb
Page 37 and 38: Goal 1 Increase the awareness and c
Page 39 and 40: Goal 1 Objective 1.2 Increase the a
Page 41 and 42: Recommended Actions • Implement a
Page 43 and 44: Goal 3 Build and sustain the capaci
Page 45: Goal 5 Increase research and progra
Page 49 and 50: Goal 6 Optimize emergency response,
Page 51 and 52: Making Alberta the Safest Place to
Page 53 and 54: • Community-based and not-for-pro
Page 55 and 56: − − Educate and train your work
Page 57 and 58: • Federal Government − − −
Page 59 and 60: • Facilitate stakeholder developm
Page 61 and 62: APPENDIX B Injuries know no boundar
Page 63 and 64: • Decrease the incidence of injur
Page 65 and 66: Injuries account for a significant
Page 67 and 68: Injury deaths Figure B-4 presents i
Page 69 and 70: Figure B-5 Rank order of injury cau
Page 71 and 72: Trends in injury mortality, hospita
Page 73 and 74: Injury hospitalizations and emergen
Page 75 and 76: Figure B-11 Rank order of injury ca
Page 77 and 78: Rank order of causes of emergency r
Page 79 and 80: OTHER INJURY DATA FOR ALBERTA Other
Page 81 and 82: • Four out of 10 First Nations pe
Page 83 and 84: Fire injuries Data on fires in Albe
Page 85 and 86: APPENDIX C 1 The technical definiti

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