European Child Safety Alliance, EuroSafe, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Inj Prev. 2010 Jun;16(3):204-7. doi: 10.1136/ip.2008.021444.
There is considerable confusion about the nature of indicators, their use in the injury field and surprisingly little discussion about these important tools. To date discussions of injury indicators have focused on the content and presentation of health outcome measures and on the dearth of data on exposure measures. Whereas these are valuable measures and assessing the optimal use of available routinely collected data in forming indicators is important, they do not provide sufficient information to support comprehensive prevention efforts, nor do they harness the full potential of indicators as tools to support prevention efforts. This paper provides an overview of the characteristics and uses of indicators for the field of injury prevention in order to make the case for action indicators and provide a framework for their appropriate use.
关于指标的性质、其在伤害领域的应用，存在着相当大的混淆，令人惊讶的是，对这些重要工具的讨论却很少。迄今为止，关于伤害指标的讨论主要集中在健康结果测量的内容和呈现上，以及关于暴露测量数据的缺乏上。虽然这些都是有价值的测量方法，评估现有常规收集数据在形成指标方面的最佳使用情况很重要，但它们提供的信息不足以支持全面的预防工作，也没有充分利用指标作为支持预防工作的工具的潜力。本文概述了伤害预防领域指标的特征和用途，以便为行动指标提供依据，并为其合理使用提供框架。
