Evidence: Injury Prevention

Injury Prevention Web: Web site devoted to disseminating information on injury prevention. Site presents a rich, comprehensive collection of categorized links which provide access to the websites of groups dealing with various facets of injury prevention.  Also provides links to:

• SaftetyLit: Injury Prevention Literature Update.  This site is a collaboration between the World Health Organization and the Graduate School of Public Health at San Diego State University.  It hosts a variety of recent research about injury prevention, with a searchable database of abstracts and articles in over 500 journals from multiple countries.  Access to articles and abstracts is free.
• SafteyPolicy: Injury Prevention Policy. Similar to SafteyLit but with a focus on policy issues.

Evidence: National Guideline Clearinghouse (ARHQ), School health guidelines to prevent unintentional injuries and violence. MMWR Recomm Rep 2001 Dec 7;50(RR-22):1-46.

Core-9: Disparities in Injuries and Access to Injury Prevention, National Center for Minority Health and Disparity, Columbia University Medical Center, Columbia University

To find additional articles on Injuries (type in “injury” in search boxes):

• Medline: Peer reviewed publications from the National Library of Medicine.

• PubMed: On-line searchable database of peer-reviewed published literature, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

• Core Health Policy Library Recommendations 2000 (within NCBI site). Lists journals, on-line notification, organizations, government agencies, books and publishers; generic to health policy but is searchable by topic.

• Annual Reviews: Researchers and editors affiliated with Annual Reviews, a nonprofit organization, synthesize and filter critical reviews by leading scientists in 29 focused disciplines within Biological, Medical, Physical and Social Sciences. Public Health is among the disciplines reviewed. Annual Reviews' search feature, and abstracts can be used online by non-subscribers.

• CRISP (Computerized Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects): US DHHS is a searchable database of federally funded biomedical research projects. (Search query form is in upper left corner of screen. Please note, references are as of June 2004 and may not reflect most recent studies.)

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