A global agenda for electronic injury surveillance: Consensus statement from the Trauma Association of Canada, the Trauma Society of South Africa, and the Panamerican Trauma Society.
A global agenda for electronic injury surveillance: Consensus statement from the Trauma Association of Canada, the Trauma Society of South Africa, and the Panamerican Trauma Society.
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电子伤害监测全球议程：加拿大创伤协会、南非创伤协会和泛美创伤协会的共识声明。
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10.1097/ta.0000000000000880
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2016
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Ball
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Zargaran,Eiman;Adolph,Lauren;Schuurman,Nadine;Roux,Larissa;Ramsey,Damon;Simons,Richard;Spence,Richard;Nicol,AndrewJ;Navsaria,Pradeep;Puyana,JuanCarlos;Parry,Neil;Moore,Lynne;Aboutanos,Michel;Yanchar,Natalie;Razek,Tarek;Ball
Trauma remains, despite the steady evolution of trauma systems, a major global public health issue. It is still the leading cause of loss of human potential worldwide. More than 5 million people, many of them young, die each year as a result of trauma, and another 100 million are left with severe, long-term consequences. 2 Ninety percent of these tragedies occur in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), without adequate resources to allocate to trauma systems development. Once implemented, however, organized systems of trauma care have been shown to improve injury morbidity and mortality by 15% to 20%. 3 It is estimated that more universal trauma systems could save 1.9 million lives each year. 4 Building trauma systems capacity in LMICs is a defining opportunity of this century. A key first step in the development of trauma systems is the collection and analysis of high-quality injury data or injury surveillance. 2, 5 Data collection is a necessary prerequisite for the improvement of clinical care, for the allocation of finite resources to acute care and rehabilitation, and for evidencebased injury prevention. 5 While North American trauma systems have been built on a foundation of injury surveillance in the form of hospital-based trauma registries, in lower-resource settings, the costs of data collection and analysis have often proven to be prohibitive. 3 This may be about to change. Trauma clinicians and investigators have begun to close data gaps using innovative approaches to creating low-cost trauma registries and, even more exciting, by harnessing the growing power of electronic platforms and mobile devices.
