INTEGRIS stands for an integrated approach to hospital based injury surveillance in the EU with the aim of combining routine diagnoses-oriented with special purpose prevention-oriented documentation. In particular, the integrated approach refers to creating synergies between two currently distinct injury statistics in the EU: 1. “Hospital discharge data” (HDR) – exhaustive, obligatory, good geographical coverage, validated medical details, with insufficient information for injury prevention, and 2. The hospital based “EU Injury database” (IDB) – sample of patient interviews, not obligatory yet, limited coverage yet, with relevant information for injury prevention The INTEGRIS objectives that are linked to the integration of these injury data sources were: * Methodological improvement and increased efficiency in the recording and analysis of hospital treated injuries in IDB hospitals; * Reduced burden of data entry for hospital treated injuries; * Increased usability of existing hospital data for injury prevention and research; * Development and testing of an integral methodology of data provision, data analysis and reporting. One of the objectives of the INTEGRIS evaluation work package (WP4) was to come up with a proposal for an EU-wide implementation of the INTEGRIS data set and the IDB data collection improvements that have been developed by the project (D4.3 “Proposal for EU-wide implementation“). This proposal - as outlined in this document – builds on the internal evaluation results that are summarized in the INTEGRIS Evaluation Report (D4.2). (Author/publisher)
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