International Collaborative Effort on Injury Statistics

Renaissance M Street Hotel, Washington, DC
Sunday, October 19, 2008

PowerPoints are available from each of the presenters. Please e-mail them directly.

8:30

Welcome, Introductions and the Future of the ICE
Lois Fingerhut, Chair LaFingerhut@gmail.com ; lafingerhut@gmail.com

9:15-3:30

Session 1 International Injury Indicators

Moderator: Yvette Holder, yvetteholder@bellsouth.net

Panel 1:

Lee Annest, jla1@cdc.gov

John Langley, john.langley@ipru.otago.ac.nz

Ronan Lyons, r.a.lyons@swansea.ac.uk

Goal: to develop of cross-national indicators that meet agreed upon criteria of indicators as put forth in previous ICE Meetings

10:15

Discussion

11:00

How does the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) project fit with our international agenda for indicators?

James Harrison, James.Harrison@flinders.edu.au

Kavi Bawa-Bhalla, kavi_bhalla@harvard.edu

Panel 2

Moderator: Lois Fingerhut

Goal- to examine “real world data” used for development of indicators

11:30

Experience from injury surveillance systems in Ethiopia and Mozambique
Kidist Bartolomeos, bartolomeosk@who.int

11:40

Injury surveillance: data from Kenya and Uganda
Wilson Odero, wodero@africaonline.co.ke

11:50

Real world data from Australia: The Victorian experience
Belinda Gabbe, Belinda.Gabbe@med.monash.edu.au

12:00

Real world data - Quebec, Canada: Comparison of two indicators for surveillance of falls among older adults
Yvonne Robatille, yvonne.robitaille@inspq.qc.ca

12:40-1:40

Lunch

Panel 3

Moderator: Lois Fingerhut

11:40

Data quality
James Harrison, James.Harrison@flinders.edu.au

1:50

Challenges in developing and validating injury indicators for Canadian children and youth
Alison Macpherson, alison3@yorku.ca
Ian Pike, ipike@cw.bc.ca

2:10

Questions/discussion for Panel 3

Panel 4:

Merida Indicators Discussion
Moderator: Colin Cryer, colin.cryer@ipru.otago.ac.nz
Goal: to follow-up on indicators developed in Merida, Mexico (March 2008)

2:25

Merida indicators presentations
Colin Cryer, colin.cryer@ipru.otago.ac.nz
Lois Fingerhut, LaFingerhut@gmail.com; lafingerhut@gmail.com

3:10

Probability of admission to hospital
Colin Cryer, colin.cryer@ipru.otago.ac.nz

3:55

Session II: Threat of disability

Moderator: James Harrison

4:05

Injury as a cause of Disability: a social model approach
Mitch Loeb, gze1@cdc.gov
Li-Hui Chen, eyx5@cdc.gov

4:15

The development of impairment-related injury outcome indicators
Pauline Gulliver, Pauline.gulliver@ipru.otago.ac.nz

4:25

Combining disability and incidence data: experience from UK Burden of Injuries Study
Ronan Lyons, r.a.lyons@swansea.ac.uk

4:35

Alternative approaches to derive disability weights in injuries: do they make a difference?
Juanita Haagsma, Juanita.Haagsma@rivm.nl

Monday, October 20, 2008

8:30

Future of ICE- continuing discussion Lois Fingerhut

Session III: Severity measurement

Moderator: Lois Fingerhut

8:45

GBD and severity
Kavi Bawa-Bhalla, kavi_bhalla@harvard.edu
James Harrison, James.Harrison@flinders.edu.au

9:00

Steps needed to finalize the ICE-MRG severity rankings for selecting a main injury
Margaret Warner, mmw9@cdc.gov
Li-Hui Chen, eyx5@cdc.gov

9:10

Towards international scaling of severity stability of ICISS scores between New Zealand, Australia and Denmark
Jens Lauritsen, Jens.Lauritsen@ouh.regionsyddanmark.dk

9:20

Impact of pre-hospital deaths on ICISS measurement
Rolf Gedeborg, rolf.gedeborg@surgsci.uu.se

9:30

Discussion of severity measurement issues

10:30

Workgroup Breakout Sessions

1. Fatal and nonfatal injury indicators
2. Disability indicator's
3. Severity measurement

12:30

Lunch

1:30

Reports of recommendations back to group and discussion

Indicators, Disability, Severity

3:30

Final Recommendations

4:15

Other project updates
ICD-11 James Harrison, James.Harrison@flinders.edu.au

4:45

Future of ICE Lois Fingerhut

5:15

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