A scheme for describing injury events

Objective: to develop a data collection system that provides a more comprehensive picture of the components of the preinjury and injury phases of injury events than is usually available in medical records. Resoults: A scheme for injury surveillance was designed that included location of the event, general and specific activities at time of injury, work relationship, nature of the event, animal or person contact, products or materials being used and those causing innury and energy type and mechanism. Conclusion: an acceptable scheme has been developed that can be used for generall surveillance, or modified to focus in greater detail on specific environments, products, or event types.