Alcohol and Injury: New Knowledge from ER Studies

描述（由申请人提供）：酒精研究小组（ARG）提议于2005年10月3日至6日在加州伯克利的DoubleTree会议酒店举行一次国际会议，"酒精和伤害：来自ER研究的新知识"。这次会议将由世卫组织和疾病预防控制中心共同主办，它们将为其官方代表出席和参加会议提供支持。受邀与会者代表21个国家，其中包括由ARG中心赠款资助的急诊室协作酒精分析项目（ERCAAP）的合作者和世卫组织酒精和伤害协作研究的调查人员，他们都参与了酒精和伤害的急诊室研究。会议的目标是：1）促进对目前的发现，发展和关键问题的科学交流，从ER研究酒精和损伤领域; 2）确定本研究的局限性和差距; 3）讨论和促进研究成果转化为实践; 4）讨论研究的公共卫生政策影响，并为该领域未来的研究提出建议和资助优先事项; 5）讨论和规划未来的合作项目; 6）作为会议的一项成果，编写了一本书，汇编了选定的会议发言和该领域的其他开创性工作。将涵盖的主题包括：1）过去20年来酒精和伤害领域的研究文献、关键问题和发展; 2）一些国家的ER研究结果，包括最近的合作工作; 3）与ER服务提供组织相关的背景变量和社会文化变量对跨地点、研究和国家的酒精和伤害协会的影响; 4）急性饮酒与慢性饮酒对损伤风险和归因风险的影响; 5）跨文化ER数据分析方法，包括荟萃分析、HLM建模和病例交叉技术; 6）识别酒精相关损伤的方法; 7）ER数据用于监测的有用性; 8）ER研究数据的质量和局限性以及这项研究的差距; 9）ER研究结果和建议的公共卫生政策影响; 10）ER研究结果转化为实践; 11）对未来ER研究和资助优先事项的研究影响; 12）未来工作的合作研究计划。会议将为科学家提供一个场所，以加强现有的合作关系，并建立新的合作，为未来的研究酒精和伤害。这将是近20年来首次在急诊室举行的酒精和损伤流行病学会议，并遵循向NIAAA校外科学咨询委员会流行病学会议提交的关于酒精和损伤未来研究方向的建议。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Alcohol Research Group (ARG) is proposing an international conference, "Alcohol and Injury: New Knowledge from ER Studies," to be held at the DoubleTree conference hotel in Berkeley, California, October 3 - 6, 2005. The conference will be co-sponsored by WHO and CDC who will provide support for their official representatives to attend and participate in the conference. Invited participants represent 21 countries and include, among others, collaborators from the Emergency Room Collaborative Alcohol Analysis Project (ERCAAP) funded under ARG's Center grant and investigators from the WHO Collaborative Study on Alcohol and Injuries, all of whom have participated in conducting ER studies of alcohol and injuries. The goals of the conference are to: 1) promote a scientific exchange of current findings, developments and key issues in the field of alcohol and injury from ER studies; 2) identify limitations and gaps in this research; 3) discuss and promote translation of research findings into practice; 4) discuss public health policy implications of the research, and recommendations and funding priorities for future research in this field; 5} discuss and plan future collaborative projects; and, 6} produce as one outcome of the conference, a book compiling selected conference presentations and other seminal work in the field. Topics to be covered include: 1) research literature, key issues and developments in field of alcohol and injury over the last 20 years; 2) findings from ER studies across a number of countries, including recent collaborative work; 3) the influence of contextual variables related to the organization of ER services delivery and socio-cultural variables on associations of alcohol and injury across sites, studies and countries; 4) affects of acute alcohol vs. chronic use on risk of injury and attributable risk; 5) methodologies for analyzing ER data across cultures, including meta-analysis, HLM modeling, and case cross-over techniques; 6) methods for identifying alcohol-related injury; 7) usefulness of ER data for surveillance; 8) quality and limitations of data from ER studies and gaps in this research; 9) public health policy implications of findings from ER studies and recommendations; 10) translation of ER findings into practice;11) research implications for future ER studies and funding priorities, and;12) collaborative research plans for future work. The conference will provide a venue for scientists to strengthen existing collaborative relationships and to establish new collaborations requisite for future research on alcohol and injury. This will be the first conference on the epidemiology of alcohol and injury in the ER of this magnitude in the last 20 years, and follows on recommendations for directions for future research on alcohol and injury presented to the NIAAA Extramural Scientific Advisory Board Meeting on Epidemiology.