As in all of the United States, injury remains the major cause of death and disability for the children of Northeast Florida. For the past 20 years, Shands Jacksonville has provided a state-designated Level I trauma service, including a pediatric trauma referral center, for a 27 county geographic region. In additional to providing definitive trauma care, Shands Jacksonville has also developed a comprehensive dataset defining the physiologic presentation and outcome of acute care of severe pediatric injury. Based on this extensive experience and findings from the pilot study described below, we intend to expand the current surveillance system to focus special emphasis on geographic areas of high injury frequency and severity as demonstrated by pilot study data, define the disease of injury in more precise terms by expanding the current registry to a composite database that will include pre-hospital descriptors, measures of impairment, and surveillance of long-term performance, enhance present prevention initiatives related to Safe Driving / Seat Belt Safety, Bicycle Safety, and Walk Safety / Safe Ways to School, and measure the effect of this enhanced prevention initiative using the composite dataset to define pediatric injury in precise terms of impairment and long-term effect. For more information please visit www.traumaone.net/SDMS.

IFCK Surgeons: We would value your assessment of this surveillance dataset, which is de-identified, and represents injury related experience from our pediatric ED.  To access the database simply click the link above, go to “Secure Login” in the upper right corner, and enter the user name and password forwarded to you by Mike Hirsh.  Click on “Ad hoc reporting” and manipulate the tables and fields listed. Instructions on how to use (the very intuitive!) report engine are immediately above it.  Please email me your thoughts- good, bad and ugly.  It will make great discussion at our December meeting.