Israel National Center for Trauma & Emergency Medicine Research, The Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
The Department of Emergency Management & Disaster Medicine, School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.
Isr J Health Policy Res. 2019 Jun 5;8(1):49. doi: 10.1186/s13584-019-0323-7.
Recently, Luria et al. (2019) published a paper in The Israeli Journal for Health Policy Research describing the epidemiology of wrist and hand injuries in two hospitals in Jerusalem. In this important paper, the authors were able to identify two subpopulations at higher than average risk for such injuries.It should be noted that local epidemiological findings could differ from findings for regional, national and international settings. Therefore, it is important to explore the extent to which these findings can be further generalized to other contexts, especially when considering health policy changes.In this commentary, we explore this notion by comparing the results of the Jerusalem Study to those obtained from the Israel National Trauma Registry for the same period. The findings suggest that extrapolating the local findings to the national level should be done cautiously, in light of various differences that were observed.
最近，Luria 等人（2019 年）在《以色列健康政策研究杂志》上发表了一篇论文，描述了耶路撒冷两家医院的手腕和手部损伤的流行病学情况。在这篇重要的论文中，作者能够确定两个亚人群的此类损伤风险高于平均水平。需要指出的是，局部流行病学研究结果可能与区域、国家和国际环境的结果不同。因此，重要的是要探讨这些发现可以在多大程度上进一步推广到其他背景，特别是在考虑卫生政策变化时。在本评论中，我们通过将耶路撒冷研究的结果与同期以色列国家创伤登记处的结果进行比较，探讨了这一概念。研究结果表明，鉴于观察到的各种差异，应谨慎地将当地的研究结果推断到国家层面。
