Abstract
Background and Rationale
The European Injury Database (EU-IDB) is a registration of injuries, based on Emergency Department visits. It covers all injuries, i.e. due to road traffic, workplace, home and leisure accidents, self-harm and violence. The aim of the EU-IDB is to provide policy makers and injury prevention practitioners, manufacturers, consumer and standardization organizations, and researchers with the best available information on frequency, main causes, circumstances and consequences of injuries that are treated in emergency departments in up to 26 countries across Europe. Data are disseminated in a renewed online interactive dashboard, published on the EuroSafe website.
Objectives
The objective of this workshop is to demonstrate how the dashboard can enhance injury research and support data driven policymaking for injury prevention purposes across Europe.
Methodology
The workshop will start with a general introduction on the IDB network, the methods for data collection and the kind of data available in the dashboard, followed by a demonstration of the interactive dashboard, allowing participants to ask questions and discuss results. Subsequently, participants will be divided in subgroups, based on their personal interests in specific injury domains (e.g. child injuries, road traffic injuries or sports injuries). The main part of the workshop will consist of hands-on data analysis on specific themes, guided by members of the IDB Advisory Board. The last part of the workshop will be spent on plenary feedback on the results and insights of the analyses.
Target Audience
Researchers, policymakers, medical staff, consumer organisations, national database administrators EU-IDB
Expected Outcomes
• Participants have a general knowledge on the EU-IDB network and the data that are being collected.
• Participants know where to find the EU-IDB interactive dashboard and how to use it.
• Participants gather insight in figures on their injury domain of interest.
• Participants understand the value of EU-IDB data for research purposes and data driven policymaking on injury prevention.
• Participants will be motivated to share their new knowledge on the availability of European injury data and promote the use of the IDB dashboard in their own network.
Key messages
• EU-IDB network collects and disseminates data on injuries, based on registrations at Emergency Departments across Europe.
• Not all EU countries participate, but we are currently strengthening
• The available data can and should be used for research on risk groups, causes of accidents and types of injuries.
• Injury prevention and policymaking should be data driven and based on reliable injury data.