Understanding the geography of trauma: Combining spatial analysis and funnel plots to create comprehensive spatial injury profiles

CONCLUSION This study demonstrates the complementarity of choropleth maps and funnel plots in describing trauma patterns. Comprehensive geospatial analyses may help guide a data-driven approach to trauma system optimization and injury prevention. Combining maps of case counts, incidence, and funnel plots helps to not only identify geographic trends in data but also quantify outliers and display how far results fall outside the expected range. The combination of these tools provides a more comprehensive geospatial analysis than either tool could provide on its own. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE Prognostic and Epidemiologic; Level IV.
Source: Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery - Category: Surgery Tags: INDEPENDENT SUBMISSION Source Type: research