Subcommittee Co-Chairs: Tom Largo (Michigan) And Dagan Wright (Oregon)
CSTE recognizes that injury surveillance and prevention are strengthened when epidemiology is linked closely with organizations representing other public health disciplines and agencies. The CSTE Injury Epidemiology and Surveillance Subcommittee was established
to connect the expertise of applied injury epidemiologists with national injury prevention professionals and organizations. Over the years, subcommittee projects and publications have convened through collaborative activities with a host of other
partners, including CDC, Safe States Alliance, the American Public Health Association (APHA), the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), the Children’s Safety Network (CSN), the Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury
Research (SAVIR), and the Public Health Data Standards Consortium (PHDSC).
Since 2017, the subcommittee functions primarily via the CSTE Injury Surveillance Workgroup (previously two separate workgroups: CSTE Injury ICD-10-CM Transition Workgroup and CSTE Injury ICD-10-CM Drug Poisoning Indicators Workgroup) with funding from
CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC). The workgroup released the CSTE Injury Surveillance Toolkit in 2018. The toolkit serves as a resource for
using ICD-10-CM coded hospitalization and emergency department (ED) visit data to track injury burden in health departments. Recent priorities of the workgroup include the ongoing development of Special Emphasis Report tools and Exploratory Injury Indicators, both updated annually as part of the toolkit.
The CSTE Injury Data Science Team Competencies were developed by the CSTE Injury Surveillance Workgroup for applied injury epidemiology programs.
The competencies are intended to serve as a resource for injury epidemiologists, their colleagues, and their partners navigating the intersection of traditional epidemiology with emerging technologies and novel methods. The goal of this document is
to aid in establishing next steps in planning for the modernization of injury data analytics. The competencies are organized under six key domains: Leadership, Project Management, Data Management and Governance, Data Analysis and Programming, Subject
Matter Expertise, and Data Reporting and Dissemination. In order to address all domains and skills, the competencies apply a team-based approach. An Implementation Guide provides recommendations for health department leaders, including a self-assessment,
strategic planning considerations, example position descriptions, and a list of additional resources. This document will be updated periodically as the CSTE Injury Surveillance Workgroup continues to explore, implement, and evaluate the competencies.
Health Equity in Injury Data. Members of the CSTE Injury Surveillance Workgroup, Health Equity Subcommittee and other CSTE stakeholders collaborated to build this tool. It outlines health equity principles and guidance to apply those to principles to the analysis and reporting of complex injury measures such as self-harm, motor vehicle crashes, and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).
The CSTE Injury Data Linkage Toolkit was developed based on a need for data linkage specific training resources for injury surveillance that arose
during monthly workgroup calls and during the 2020 Injury Surveillance Workgroup Planning Meeting. The toolkit includes three sections:
- How-to Guide: covers linkage principles and linking a variety of databases such as medical and crash data, drug overdoses, and child abuse and neglect.
- Checklist of Best Practices: provides targeted action items by category throughout the linkage process, such as building partnerships, selecting variables, evaluating match pairs, analyzing linked data, and sharing results with stakeholders.
- Survey of Linkage Software: highlights a selected list of available software as of December 2021, comparing their capabilities, accessibility, strengths, and weaknesses.
In addition to this toolkit, CSTE hosted four Data Linkage Office Hours sessions and held one-on-one technical assistance sessions upon request. Office Hours were unstructured sessions open to any CSTE Injury Surveillance Workgroup members. Members could
submit questions in advance, join and listen in, or join and ask questions. Call recordings for Office Hours are linked below along with brief descriptions of the topics covered.
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