EPID 2670

Measuring Injury Severity



EPI 2670

 

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Instructor:

  Thomas Songer,PhD

 

Lecture Description:

  This lecture introduces the concept of injury severity and its use and importance in injury epidemiology. It discusses various measures for identifying injury severity.


  On completion of the lecture, readers will be able to:

  • Describe the importance of measuring injury severity for injury control
  • Describe the various measures of injury severity



This lecture was last modified on 30 May 2008

For further information about the course, please contact Thomas Songer at tjs@pitt.edu

Thomas Songer, PhD
Dept. of Epidemiology
Graduate School of Public Health
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA