Welcome International Collaborative Effort on Injury Statistics

June 6, 2004

Vienna, Austria

Lois A. Fingerhut, Chair

Centers for Disease Control and PreventionNational Center for Health Statistics

Welcome!• Australia, Canada,

Denmark, England, Greece, Israel, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Trinidad and the US

• World Health Organization

• To all who are attending for the first time!

Since ICE last met in Paris in 2003

• Active projects– Indicators group– Barell matrix-

conversion to ICD-10?– Multiple injury profiles– Main injury from

multiple cause of death

– Household surveys– Occupational injury

• Strategic Planning• ICECI and WHO

Agenda

• ICE 10-year review• Web page updates• Strategic planning• Project updates• Injury severity discussion• Poisoning definition discussion• Other updates including next meeting

New discussion items

• Injury severity– What to do without AIS?

• Poisoning – Should we propose a new ICD-based

definition?

Still relatively little activity on AdvICE list…

New NCHS Web Pages

•NCHS Injury Data and Resources

The purpose of this Web site is to provide an overview of the sources of national level injury data available from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and to provide details on the injury morbidity and mortality data collection systems, surveys and coding schemes used to collect and categorize the data. Links to other injury data Web sites are provided.

Injury Data and Resources

•ICE on Injury Statistics

The International Collaborative Effort (ICE) on Injury Statistics is one of several international activities sponsored by CDC’s NCHS. The goal is to provide a forum for international exchange and collaboration among injury researchers who develop and promote international standards in injury data collection and analysis. A secondary goal is to produce products of the highest quality to facilitate the comparability and improved quality of injury data.

Many, many thanks

• To my teammates here, Margy Warner and Manon Boudreault without whom we would not be here!

• Special thanks on behalf of all of us to Yvette Holder for her tireless efforts to get a strategic plan implemented for ICE