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| The Crash
Injury Research
and Engineering Network
(CIREN) is a multi-center research program
involving a collaboration of clinicians and engineers in academia, industry,
and government. Together, they are pursuing in-depth studies of crashes,
injuries, and treatments to improve processes and outcomes. CIREN's mission
is to improve the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of motor vehicle
crash injuries to reduce deaths, disabilities, and human and economic
costs. |
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In lieu of annual CIREN Conferences,
regular quarterly meetings were instituted in May of 2000. There were
no public meetings held in 2005 since the cooperative agreements were
going through a mandatory recompetition.
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CIREN Electronic
Cases
The CIREN database consists of multiple discrete fields of data concerning
severe motor vehicle crashes, including crash reconstruction and medical
injury profiles. Personal and location identifiers and highly sensitive
medical information have been removed from the public files to protect
patient confidentiality. CIREN cases, extending back to 1996, for which
coding and quality control have been completed, are available for public
viewing. Additional cases are released to the public as they become
available.
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What CIREN is all about
CIREN is a multi-disciplinary collaboration of research on crashes and
injuries at eight Level 1 Trauma Centers linked by a computer network.
Six of these Centers are funded by NHTSA, one by Honda R&D Co. Ltd.
and another by Toyota Motor North America, Inc. Level 1 Trauma Centers
are traditionally "teaching" institutions associated with
a university.
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| CIREN Report of Consequences and Costs of Lower-Extremity
Injuries, DOT HS 809 871 |
By Patricia C. Dischinger, Ph.D.; Kathleen
M. Read, M.S.W.; Joseph A. Kufera, M.A.; Timothy J. Kerns, M.S.;
Shiu M. Ho, M.S.; Cynthia A. Burch, M.S.; Nafeesa Jawed; and Andrew
R. Burgess, M.D. - June 2005
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| The NHTSA CIREN Program Report 2002, DOT HS
809 564 |
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of the NHTSA/CIREN Network, each of the CIREN centers, the research
teams, and their work. These two reports summarize the contributions
to auto safety produced by CIREN center researchers. |
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Bibliography of Publications and Presentations of
CIREN Centers
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The CIREN Centers and their academic partners
are:
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 Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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National Study Center for Trauma &
EMS / R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore, Maryland
- University of Maryland
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University of Michigan Health System
Program for Injury Research & Education, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- University of Michigan Transportation Research Center
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Harborview
Injury Prevention & Research Center, Seattle, Washington -
University of Washington
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San Diego County Trauma System, San Diego,
California - University of California
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Honda Inova Fairfax Hospital
CIREN Center, Falls Church, Virginia
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The
Froedtert Hospital & Medical College of Wisconsin CIREN Center
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Toyota
Wake Forest University School of Medicine CIREN Center
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