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Cataloguing, analyzing injuries leadsto better intervention and prevention
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SONGJIANG’S injury reporting system is commendable, according to comments from a team of experts from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after visiting surveillance sites at Sijing Town Hospital and Yongfeng Community Medical Care Center.
Currently, Songjiang is the only district in Shanghai to institute a comprehensive system for reporting and analyzing injuries.
The Songjiang Center of Disease Control and Prevention collected almost 80,000 injury reports last year, accounting for about 11 percent of the injuries collated by 43 surveillance sites in China.
Country’s only surveillance site
“Songjiang is the country’s only surveillance site to use the Business Rule Engine (BRE), which makes our work more efficient and accurate,” department director Guan Ying said, referring to a software system that executes one or more business rules in a runtime production environment.
Prior to 2009, cases of injuries were collected and recorded manually by hospital staff, then forwarded to the Songjiang center. Then, the district set up an online platform, combining the district’s three largest hospitals and 15 community medical care centers.
The BRE system allows outpatient doctors to report injury cases directly to the district Center of Disease Control and Prevention via the online platform, greatly improving the efficiency and avoiding overlapping or tardy reporting.
In 2012, the center upgraded the software system and added a function to record injuries resulting from faulty products.
For example, if a child were injured while using a baby walker, the doctor would report both the case and also information about the walker product.
In Songjiang, the death rate from injuries ranks fourth after deaths from tumors, circulatory diseases and respiratory ailments.
Injury prevention system
“Injuries not only consume a lot of public healthcare resources, but they also burden families,” Guan said. “To establish such an injury surveillance system helps us to pinpoint occurrence regularity and take appropriate action that will lead to lower injury rates.”
At the same time, Songjiang is now creating a more comprehensive injury control and prevention system.
In a traffic accident prevention project conducted by district police, the statistics are collated and analyzed. They showed that accidents were most likely to occur at the entrance of the district’s Youth Center on Renmin Road N. The police then installed traffic lights and speed bumps at the site.
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