HECOL473 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Consumer Product Safety Act, National Fire Protection Association, Astm International
14 Sep 2016
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Info on how injuries happen and insights useful to their prevention. Self-reports are less valuable if the patient is illiterate/reluctant (cases of violence) Representativeness, cannot deem accurate representation for all of. Under-representation of older adolescents and adults b/c high proportion of children"s hospital participation. Some injuries not captured (death: the authors discuss how accurate coding of the injury data is very important and in the earlier years of the program there were more mistakes in coding. The use of several approaches when searching for a particular injury. Search for cases in which the nature of the injury was the particular e ect (burns/corrosion) Search for cases where the mechanism lead to the injury (contact with hot object) Was it deemed successful in achieving this: assist in the identi cation of emerging hazards, provide info that would be useful in developing injury prevention and control programs and policies, provide a tool to evaluate these programs.
