This work builds on a successful demonstration project and expands its data linkage capacity to new community partners. Presently, a national non-fatal injury reporting system does not exist for the Fire Service. In order to tell the story of all injuries within a fire department, state, or on a national scale, we must utilize data that are available from multiple sources that do not naturally talk to each other. In this panel, we will describe the purpose of the project, its goals, and the success of its model to public health surveillance.
Objective
The purpose of this panel is to describe the process of using data to develop firefighter nonfatal injury surveillance systems in the city of Philadelphia and the state of Florida through the linkage of data from workers’ compensation, inpatient and emergency department hospitalizations, human resources, and continuing education/training registries.