BEST PRACTICES
IN PREVENTION-ORIENTED
CHILD DEATH REVIEW


Welcome to
Best Practices in Prevention-Oriented Child Death Review

This site was created by the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center as a tool to assist Child Death Review (CDR) team members and other public health professionals working to prevent child injury death. It is designed as an aid in making prevention-oriented recommendations as part of the local child fatality review process. Development of this site was supported in part by HRSA, through its EMS–C Targeted Issues Grant Program (1H34MC02543–01–033).

The site examines a broad range of interventions designed to prevent injury and death due to drowning, suicide, firearms, abuse and motor vehicle crashes — the top causes of injury death for children age 0–18 living in Washington State.

For each injury mechanism, we identified interventions of particular interest to public health oriented CDR teams. Working with experts in each content area, we reviewed and rated the strength and quality of published evidence supporting the efficacy of these interventions. Our reviews were used to establish a consensus rating of the research supporting each intervention and allowed us to identify evidence-based best practices in injury prevention for each studied mechanism. A more detailed description of our process is available here.

To begin your query, please click on one of the mechanisms below:

Drowning

Youth Suicide

Unintentional Firearm Injury

Motor Vehicle Occupant Injury

Child Abuse

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