Hospital-based Injury and Violence Prevention Programs: The Trauma Center Guide for all Healthcare Professionals Doody's Expert Review Review Questionnaire ISBN: 9783031203565 ISBN-10: 3031203569 Copyright: 2023 Edition: 1st Editor: Adams, Christy, Tinkoff, Glen, Doody's Expert Review    Score: 98 Doody's Star Rating™ and Doody's Expert Review provide by Doody Enterprises, Inc. Reviewer: David  Dries,  MSE MD  (Regions Hospital St. Paul, Mn) Description This book presents a review of approaches to injury and violence prevention, featuring program development which may be based in a hospital such as a trauma center. Purpose The purpose of the book is to utilize the science of public health approaches to describe a strategy for injury prevention that may be incorporated into services provided by a trauma center. Audience The variety of disciplines serving in a hospital-based trauma program may utilize the tools presented in this book. Contributors represent advocacy groups, academic medical centers, and trauma programs throughout the United States. Editors are stationed at the University of California-Davis Medical Center and the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Features Nine compact chapters and a collection of resources for hospital-based injury and violence prevention are included in an attractive volume of approximately 130 pages. After the editors provide the case for systematic injury prevention, approaches to injury prevention, including development of community partnership toward this end, are described. Later presentations describe generation of data to support injury and violence prevention with specific chapters devoted to development of an evidence-based strategy for injury and violence prevention with review of techniques for research study design supporting community-based injury control. Later chapters describe the role and process for advocacy and a business model to support violence and injury prevention. Chapters are clearly written and make careful use of multicolored illustrations and tables. Each chapter includes an ample list of references with citations dating to within one year of publication of this book. The table of contents provides a simple listing of authors and associated topics. While a subject index is not provided, the list of resources for program development is an excellent tool. Assessment In the book's preface, the editors make the sobering observation that more than half of trauma-related deaths occur within minutes of injury and there are no treatments that improve survival for these patients. Thus, reduction in injury events is optimally associated with adverse outcome reduction. This book is a worthy tool that supports this important goal. Review Questionnaire Range Question Score 1-10 Are the author's objectives met? 10 1-10 Rate the worthiness of those objectives. 10 1-5 Is this written at an appropriate level? 5 1-5 Is there significant duplication? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 4 1-5 Are there significant omissions? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 5 1-5 Rate the authority of the authors. 5 1-5 Are there sufficient illustrations? 5 1-5 Rate the pedagogic value of the illustrations. 4 1-5 Rate the print quality of the illustrations. 5 1-5 Are there sufficient references? 5 1-5 Rate the currency of the references. 5 1-5 Rate the pertinence of the references. 5 1-5 Rate the helpfulness of the index. N/A 1-5 If important in this specialty, rate the physical appearance of the book N/A 1-10 Is this a worthwhile contribution to the field? 10 1-10 If this is a 2nd or later edition, is this new edition needed? N/A ©2025 Doody Enterprises, Inc.