Abstract
BackgroundEnglish national injury data collection systems are restricted to hospitalisations and deaths. With recent linkage of a large primary care database, the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), with secondary care...
Highlights
English national injury data collection systems are restricted to hospitalisations and deaths
We identified 42,985 poisoning, 185,517 fracture and 36,719 burn events in linked Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)-Hospital Episode Statistics (HES)-Office for National Statistics (ONS) data; incidence rates were 41.9 per 10,000 person-years (95% confidence interval 41.4–42.4), 180.8 (179.8–181.7) and 35.8 (35.4–36.1), respectively
It is essential to use linked primary care, hospitalisation and deaths data to estimate injury burden, as many injury events are only captured within a single data source
Summary
English national injury data collection systems are restricted to hospitalisations and deaths. With recent linkage of a large primary care database, the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), with secondary care and mortality data we aimed to assess the utility of linked data for injury research and surveillance by examining recording patterns and comparing incidence of common injuries across data sources. Estimating injury burden in England remains a challenge due to fragmented data collection systems and no national surveillance system. Fractures and burns as they are three of the commonest injuries of childhood and adolescence,(8, 9) and have been highlighted as priorities for prevention among under 5s in England.[1] We describe the recording of injury mechanisms and intent according to data source, in order to assess the utility of these data for injury surveillance and future studies of injury burden and prevention
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