Evaluations on Several National Injury Surveillance Systems

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On-line Queries were conducted on three injury surveillance systems implemented in Japan, the United States and the European Union. Attributes such as simplicity, representativeness, and data quality of each surveillance system were evaluated. The evaluation result shows that the system in the U.S. has a better performance.

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