OBJECTIVES

The Project Objectives

Objective 1

To develop, validate and provide a data model for the integration of official Hospital Discharge Registers (HDR) with the EU Injury Database (IDB) for an improved reporting of injury indicators at the national and EU level (

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- integrated IDB/HDR dataset).

Objective 2

To provide an operationalised set of validated indicators for disabilities from injuries based on the HDR medical information as part of the

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data set.

Objective 3

To develop, validate and provide a methodology for obtaining representative samples of injury patients and monthly extrapolations of sample statistics at the national level for EU level aggregation.

Objective 4

To develop an advanced front-end application and sample database for the

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dataset (electronic interfaces to streamline onsite data entry and online transmission to the central server).

Objective 5

To pilot the

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data collection in seven member states and to evaluate outcomes based on the quality criteria of the European Statistical System (Eurostat) and the public health requirements of the EU Health Indicators (ECHI).

Objective 6

To propose an EU-level

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implementation plan for adoption by relevant stakeholders and decision makers.

Objectives 1, 2 and 3

relate to the topic "develop and validate an improved methodology for data collection on rare events (disability, accidents)" of the call.

Objective 4

aims in particular at contributing to the expected impact on "streamlining data collection, and adapting it to new technologies, methodological improvement of official statistics to address the increasing burden on respondents, reducing costs".

Objectives 5 and 6

are in line with the requirement of the call that "Findings should meet the quality criteria used by the European Statistical System and be applicable at the national and European level."