事故傷害研究資料收集與分析的相關問題

有效事故傷害防制計劃的擬定必須奠基在正確有用的資料上，本文參考重要相關文獻，整理事故傷害研究資料收集與分析常見的相關問題。其中包括：一、該收集哪些相關資料；二、使用現有相關資料的注意事項，其中特別著墨於使用死因統計資料時的常見問題；三、自行進行調查來收集資料時，必須注意清楚鎖定標的與界定個案，選擇適當的相關變項及分類；四、分析相關資料時，若需使用相對數值，必須釐清率與分率的差別，清楚界定分子與分母，尤其留意危險暴露的界定。
Injury prevention and control programs should based on a solid foundation of data. Issues related to data collection and analyses in injury studies were discussed in this paper which included: 1)what kind of data should we collect;2)problems of using available data sources with special attention on using mortality data in injury studies; 3)issues on collecting new data were targeting the problem, case definition, selecting relevant variables and good classifications; 4)notes on data analysis were using relative figures properly, differentiate rate and proportion, define numerator and denominator clearly with special emphasize on exposure risk.