Identify the elements that make injury/illness surveillance possible; and how the Paediatric Emergency Department should/should not be involved.

Injury is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in childhood, and much of this will present to the PED. While much paediatric illness will be seen in primary care much will also attend PED. The PED may therefore be a focus for injury and illness surveillance.

For this task we wish you to identify the elements that make injury/illness surveillance possible; and how the Paediatric Emergency Department should/should not be involved.

What roles are involved, by whom, when and how? What technology is required? What are the related issues? How can/should data be analysed - and how reliable is this data for these purposes? You need to consider legislation, ethics and practicalities as well.  need to submit an agreed position statement covering the above topic.
PED ( paediatric emergency department).

Topic:
Data management

No# of Pages:
3 pages (750 words)

Academic Level:
Master

Subject Area:
Health

Paper Style:
Harvard

No# of Sources Required:
7