WHO issues guidance on monitoring injuries

"Experts from more than 50 countries have combined forces to produce guidelines that will help healthcare staff in developing countries to set up systems to monitor the toll of death and disability from injuries. The manual, which is published by the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States, is designed to help planners and front line clinical staff produce systematic data on injuries, whether they are working in a computerised city hospital or a remote first aid clinic. The information that the systems generate will help target action to cut injury rates..." This is a short article introducing the recently published WHO "Injury Surveillance Guidelines" (see rec # 5377).