Injury Prevention and Control
Over the past years the Division of Emergency Services at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center has continued research targeted towards prevention of injuries and reduction of morbidity to those suffering a primary injury.
Current goals are to expand the expertise with a multidisciplinary team to further Cincinnati Children's becoming an Injury Prevention Center. The Hamilton County Department of Health released the first report of geo-coded data on patients of all ages hospitalized during 1996 in participating hospitals within the county. Representatives from each hospital, including Richard Ruddy, MD, are on the medical advisory board for this project.
In other areas of trauma care, the summary of delay diagnosis in acute trauma was presented by Dr. Connors last fall and the results of a grant to evaluate Cincinnati Children's trauma system activation were presented at the fall American Academy of Pediatrics' annual meeting.
In the area of education, the Injury Prevention Team of the trauma committee has implemented an injury prevention course for residents' education under the leadership of Dr. Connors. This project was presented at the Annual Pediatric Academic Societies meeting as a workshop for other pediatric programs to model.
