The goal for this project is to evaluate a theoretically-driven and innovative brief intervention for child safety delivered in the pediatric emergency department. The intervention addresses the use of child safety seats, working smoke alarms, and safely stored poisons.

The major goal of this research is to determine whether a brief intervention, Project Carbon Monoxide Detector Education (Project CODE), will increase CO detector use.

The International Program of The Center for Injury Research and Policy is a reflection of the center’s knowledge that injury-related death and disability are preventable events.  The goal of working at the international level to promote injury research is important given what is known about the burden of injury in the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), injuries accounted for 9% of the world’s deaths and 12% of the burden of disease in 2000.  The burden of disease measure takes into account, not only mortality, but also disability resulting from injury.  Of the world’s deaths from injuries, 90% occur in low and middle-income countries.  WHO reports an expectation of a substantial increase in the injury-related burden of disease primarily because of road traffic injuries, interpersonal violence, war, and self-inflicted injuries.  The Center for Injury Research and Policy recognizes that its expertise can be utilized to impact injury control initiatives in the developing world. For this reason, CIRP has created the international program.

Major goal: To increase training and research related to agricultural injuries in China in order to develop an infrastructure for future sustainable agricultural injury research in China.

Major goal: To develop and evaluate new evidence-based approaches to youth agricultural injury prevention.

The National High School Sports-Related Injury Surveillance Study is currently the only nationally representative study of US high school sports-related injuries.  Certified athletic trainers from US high schools use an internet-based data collection tool, RIO™ (Reporting Information Online), to prospectively report athletic exposure and injury data for athletes participating in 18 sports (boys’ football, soccer, basketball, wrestling, baseball, ice hockey, lacrosse, swimming and diving, and track and field and girls’ soccer, volleyball, basketball, softball, gymnastics, field hockey, lacrosse, swimming and diving, and track and field).  By monitoring patterns of injury and identifying sport-specific risk and protective factors, the rate of high school sports-related injuries can be reduced through targeted, evidence-based interventions.

To calculate national estimates of motor vehicle crash-related hospitalization and associated use of health care resources among patients 20 years and younger and to explore the effects of certain sociodemographic, health care system-related factors, and injury severity on use of hospital resources and lengths of stay in the United States.

Major goal: To evaluate pre-hospital factors and their impact on outcomes of injured children using data from Ohio CODES project.

Major goal: To link automobile crash data, EMS incidence reporting data, trauma registry data, hospital discharge data, death certificate data, emergency department (ED) data, and driver’s license data in State of Ohio.

Major goal: To evaluate the effect of delay in advanced trauma care on trauma patients’ outcomes using linked data from Ohio CODES.

In conjunction with the Ohio Department of Public Safety, Ohio Department of Health, and the Ohio Hospital association, CIRP has established the Ohio CODES (Crash Outcomes Data Evaluation System) Program. Using a sophisticated probablistic matching strategy, Ohio CODES links Ohio traffic crash record data with data from EMS, hospital and emergency department, and other statewide databases to assess the medical and financial outcomes of motor vehicle crashes. These data are used to identify prevention strategies and to inform highway safety planning and public policy decision-making. Visit the CODES section of our website for additional information.

The objective of this study was to shed light on the extent to which childhood obesity affects the types of appropriate child safety seats available for young children. This study was the first to estimate of the number of US children whose weight renders them unable to safely use the majority of child safety seats currently on the market.