Project Aims

Overarching goal
To provide valid estimates of the burden of non-fatal injury using empirical data

Specific Aims:

1. Evaluate the influence of existing and alternative classifications of injuries on disability burden estimates;
2. Identify functional outcome and recovery patterns of multiple injuries and the impact on disability outcomes;
3. Evaluate methods for integrating the functional outcome associated with multiple injuries into burden of injury measurements;
4. Establish the duration of disability, and the percentage with persisting disability, for injury groupings based on empirical data;
5. Establish the comparability of the burden of non-fatal injury (Years Lived with Disability) estimates based on different methodologies;
6. Develop alternative metrics for the measurement of population injury burden.