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Center
for for Child Injury Prevention Studies (CChIPS)
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
The Center for Child Injury Prevention Studies is a synergistic collaboration between
industry and academe in the field of child and adolescent injury prevention research.
Center Mission and Rationale
The CChIPS mission is to advance the safety of children by by conducting scientific
research on the prevalence and predictors of child injury, and evaluation, development,
testing, and dissemination of commercial technology and public education programs for
prevention of injuries. Children are not small adults but require their own scientific
inquiry to ensure their unique needs are met for optimal protection and treatment. CChIPS is
hosted by The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP -
www.chop.edu) in collaboration with the
University of Pennsylvania (PENN -
www.upenn.edu). CHOP is the Nation's
first children's hospital and one of the leading pediatric research facilities in the world.
PENN is a world-class research institution with a history of innovation in interdisciplinary
collaborations and scholarship.
Research Programs
The scope of the research projects undertaken at CChIPS fall into five categories.
- Injury biomechanics, mechanism, and behavior.
- Technological solutions – design, development, testing.
- Human interaction with and behavior related to safety technology.
- Education and promotion of safety.
- Evaluation and cost effectiveness of safety devices or unsafe behavior modification
programs.
CChIPS has undertaken 30 research projects in four years, with participation from 21
students. Our program has had international involvement. CChIPS funded a focus group study
to understand child booster seat use in China. Booster seats were provided to enrolled
parents, allowing for actual behavior changes.
Special Center Activities
- Teen Driver Research
- Translation of research into findings into tangible innovations in safety
technology
- Public education programs
- Outreach
Facilities and Laboratories
CChIPS is prepared to investigate the pediatric causes and consequences of child,
adolescent, and young adult injury from crashes and other accidents through our established
collaborative team of engineers, epidemiologists, statisticians, clinicians, and
psychologists. The Center's capabilities extend to the full range of pediatric biomechanics
studies: determining the injury tolerance of children and pediatric surrogates, development
of test protocols, and computational modeling and simulation. The Center has the capability
to create, test, and evaluate interventions that involve cooperation and behavior change among
families and to create systems to deliver them; the expertise to conduct short and long-term
follow-up studies in order to quantify consequences and benefits; extensive experience in
studying the following that result from accidents and injury: identifying and quantifying
medical and psychosocial consequences to injury in children and parents; developing and
testing interventions to prevent and treat adverse outcomes; as well as wide dissemination
of best practice information through our extensive collaborative networks in pediatrics,
pediatric trauma, and pediatric psychology. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the
host for CChIPS, is the leading pediatric hospital in the country according to US News & World
Report and serves in a leadership capacity for child health for the nation. Further, The
Center builds on its established national surveillance system regarding children in crashes
and its extensive pediatric care network that involves more than 1,000,000 outpatient visits
per year and a world-class emergency medicine, transport, intensive care, and surgical
expertise as its real-world sites for study.
Center Location
Headquarters
Flaura Koplin Winston, MD PhD
The Center for Injury Research & Prevention
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
3535 Market St., 11th floor, Suite 1150
Philadelphia, PA 19104
USA
phone: 215-590-5208
fax: 215-590-5425
Scientific Director and Founder
The Center for Injury Research & Prevention
URL: www.chop.edu/injury
Director
Center for Child Injury Prevention Studies
URL: www.chop.edu/cchips
Center home page(s) URL
www.chop.edu/cchips
Center Director(s)
Flaura Koplin Winston, MD PhD
Center Evaluator
Eric Sundstrom
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