A number of hospitals are able to collect more extensive information about the circumstances and causes of injuries, including narratives on the injury event and details about products that may be involved. For that purpose a more comprehensive classification has been made available; the IDB Full Data Set (FDS) Data Dictionary. The FDS contains more detail than the MDS, in particular regarding to:
- Day (season) and day-time of injury
- Place (setting) of occurrence
- Activity when injured
- Sport injuries (e.g. sport practiced)
- Product/substance involved in starting the incidence
- Product/substance causing the injury
- Product/substance amplifying the risk (e.g. alcohol)
- Acts of interpersonal violence (e.g. relation perpetrator – victim)
- Acts of self-harm (e.g. reason for self-harm)
- Transport injuries (e.g. involved vehicle)
- Treatment (e.g. days of hospital care)
Information from the FDS-level dataset can only be consulted by authorized users. In accordance with Directive 95/46/EC of 1995, the Network of Data Administrators (NDAs) has issued a data access policy, which regulates the access to single case (“micro”) data. All data users (including the data suppliers, the IDB-NDAs) have to agree (in writing) with the “Terms of use” and Privacy statement. Access is granted to:
- IDB data suppliers (as long as they provide data according to the common quality criteria);
- The head of the EU Health Programme Management Unit at the European Commission (as long as DG SANTE hosts the database);
- The head of the Product and Service Safety Unit at the European Commission (as long as DG SANTE hosts the database);
- Service providers linked to the European Commission by contract to fulfil specific (e.g. technical) tasks related to the IDB (access is temporary and will be removed at the end of the contract).
Temporary access can be also granted to researchers and injury prevention professionals upon request. Researchers, who want to analyse micro data at MDS level and/ or want to consult the database that contains data at FDS-level shall complete the form “request for research access” and send it together with the signed form “agreement with the terms of use” to the rupertkisser
yahoo [dot] de (IDB Network coordinator). Each request for disclosure requires the consent of every data supplier, and the data controller at DG SANTE will disclose only those data sets, for which the data suppliers have given their consent.
IDB project is co-funded under the EU-Health programme and managed by Eurosafe. Information available on this page was produced by Eurosafe. Views expressed in this text do not necessarily represent the point of view of the European Commission. The European Commission does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included on this webpage.