JUNE 2003 - Alberta Centre for Injury Control & Research

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Outcome Indicator Current Status Target Proportion of Emergency Medical Services personnel with BLS and/or ALS qualifications Proportion of injured individuals receiving quality rehabilitative care. Proportion of injured individuals, families and significant others who are satisfied with their rehabilitation. Proportion of individuals with longterm injury-related disabilities who achieve independence and self-reliance in their community of choice. Recommended Actions Proportion of ALS/BLS qualifications: percentage of EMS personnel with ALS/BLS qualifications: 82% (approx. 2001) Source: Alberta Health and Wellness. September 2001. No data available. No data available. No data available. Improve upon current status. Establish baseline. Establish baseline. Identify outcomes and establish baseline measures. • Implement the recommendations from the Alberta Provincial Trauma System Proposal and the Spinal Cord Injury Collaboration. • Support the Spinal Cord Injury Collaboration in establishing priorities and strategies in the area of service delivery to persons with spinal cord injuries. • Support the full implementation of the recommendations outlined in the Alberta Disability Strategy. • Implement recommendations of the Ambulance Review Board including access to 911 and advanced life support. • Identify existing gaps and needs in the provision of comprehensive injury assessments through emergency response, acute care and rehabilitation. • Identify, develop and promote integration of quality standards of care and best practices for emergency response, acute care and rehabilitation. • Implement specific questions addressing injury assessment and care in patient and family satisfaction surveys. • Develop and implement a provincial injury rehabilitation strategy to enhance reintegration of injured persons into their homes, workplaces and communities. • Identify existing gaps and needs in the provision of emergency, acute care and rehabilitation services to people presenting with intentional injuries. Making Alberta the Safest Place to Live 46
Goal 6 Optimize emergency response, acute care 6 and rehabilitation services to those who are affected by injury Objective 6.2 Injury prevention will be a core component of emergency response, acute care and rehabilitation programs. Emergency Response, Acute Care and Rehabilitation Outcome Indicator Current Status Target Proportion of emergency response services, acute care and rehabilitation centres integrating injury prevention programming. No data available Establish baseline Recommended Actions • Provide educational resources and support integration of injury prevention into programs carried out by emergency response services, acute care and rehabilitation centres. Making Alberta the Safest Place to Live 47
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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 and 46: Goal 5 Increase research and progra
Page 47: 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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