Mooney Stephen J, Rundle Andrew G, Morrison Christopher N
Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States.
Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States.
Curr Epidemiol Rep. 2022 Dec;9(4):263-272. doi: 10.1007/s40471-022-00311-x. Epub 2022 Oct 20.
Injury data is frequently captured in registries that form a census of 100% of known cases that meet specified inclusion criteria. These data are routinely used in injury research with a variety of study designs. We reviewed study designs commonly used with data extracted from injury registries and evaluated the advantages and disadvantages of each design type.
Registry data are suited to 5 major design types: (1) Description, (2) Ecologic (with Ecologic Cohort as a particularly informative sub-type), (3) Case-control (with location-based and culpability studies as salient subtypes), (4) Case-only (including case-case and case-crossover subtypes), and (5) Outcomes.
Registries are an important resource for injury research. Investigators considering use of a registry should be aware of the advantages and disadvantages of available study designs.
损伤数据通常在登记处收集,这些登记处对符合特定纳入标准的所有已知病例进行普查。这些数据经常用于各种研究设计的损伤研究中。我们回顾了从损伤登记处提取的数据常用的研究设计,并评估了每种设计类型的优缺点。
登记处数据适用于5种主要设计类型:(1)描述性研究,(2)生态学研究(生态队列是特别有信息量的子类型),(3)病例对照研究(基于地点和责任的研究是突出的子类型),(4)单纯病例研究(包括病例-病例和病例交叉子类型),以及(5)结局研究。
登记处是损伤研究的重要资源。考虑使用登记处的研究者应了解现有研究设计的优缺点。