PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Dan Bieler
AU  - I Cernak
AU  - L Martineau
AU  - S Bjarnason
AU  - A Franke
AU  - E Kirkman
AU  - M J Leggieri, Jr
AU  - H Orru
AU  - S Ouellet
AU  - M Philippens
AU  - M G Risling
AU  - J-C Sarron
AU  - S Skriudalen
AU  - J A Teland
AU  - S Watts
AU  - R Gupta
TI  - Guidelines for conducting epidemiological studies of blast injury
AID  - 10.1136/jramc-2018-000948
DP  - 2019 Feb 01
TA  - Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
PG  - 41--44
VI  - 165
IP  - 1
4099  - http://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/165/1/41.short
4100  - http://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/165/1/41.full
SO  - J R Army Med Corps2019 Feb 01; 165
AB  - Blast injuries are often caused by more than one mechanism, do not occur in isolation, and typically elicit a secondary multi-system response. Research efforts often do not separate blast injuries caused by blast waves from those caused by blunt force trauma and other mechanisms. 15 experts from nine different NATO nations developed in the HFM Research Task Group (RTG; HFM-234 (RTG)) ‘Environmental Toxicology of Blast Exposures: Injury Metrics, Modelling, Methods and Standards’ Guidelines for Conducting Epidemiological Studies of Blast Injury. This paper describes these guidelines, which are intended to provide blast injury researchers and clinicians with a basic set of recommendations for blast injury epidemiological study design and data collection that need to be considered and described when conducting prospective longitudinal studies of blast injury.