Find state-by-state injury death rates and rankings and a report card for how well states scored on 10 key indicators of steps states can take to prevent injuries.
The Injury Free Coalition for Kids established an ongoing national network of hospital-based programs focused on reducing injuries to children in high-injury neighborhoods.
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October 11, 2010 | Program Result Report
Injury has long been the leading cause of childhood mortality, morbidity and hospital admissions in the United States.
June 1, 2009 | Journal Article
A patient care plan, including current fall risk status and appropriate interventions, should be made available to the patient, the patient's health care team and family to reduce falls.
June 1, 1999 | Program Result Report
The Grady Injury Prevention Program is located at Hughes Spalding Children's Hospital where the project director, Donna Jones, M.D., is a public health pediatrician.
June 1, 1999 | Program Result Report
The St. Louis Children's Hospital Injury Prevention Coalition was based on the HHIPP model. Activities included community-based injury prevention education and providing safe and constructive activities and/or environments in which children can live and play.
June 1, 1999 | Program Result Report
Starting in August 1998, Flaura Winston, M.D., set up Traumalink, a center for injury prevention research, at Children's Hospital, a Level One Trauma Center.
June 1, 1999 | Program Result Report
On January 1, 1995, Chicago Youth Programs (CYP), in conjunction with Children's Memorial Hospital, became the third site of the Injury Free Coalition for Kids program.
June 1, 1999 | Program Result Report
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center started its Injury Free Kids project in its Los Angeles' South Bay community in 1996 with a focus on two ethnically homogenous communities.
June 1, 1999 | Program Result Report
The second three-year replication site of the program was The Kansas City Injury Coalition for Kids (KICK) at the Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City.
June 1, 1999 | Program Result Report
In 1994, Pittsburgh's Allegheny General Hospital became the first site of the Injury Free Coalition for Kids program.
February 1, 1999 | Program Result Report
During 1996 and 1997, staff at the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center at the University of Washington, Seattle, in collaboration with the International Society of Child and Adolescent Injury Preventiondeveloped information for a broad audience on strategies for the prevention of injuries to children and adolescents.