TY - JOUR T1 - Covering the territory: can <em>Injury Prevention</em> do better? JF - Injury Prevention JO - Inj Prev SP - 299 LP - 299 DO - 10.1136/injuryprev-2021-044347 VL - 27 IS - 4 AU - Roderick J McClure Y1 - 2021/08/01 UR - http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/27/4/299.abstract N2 - The field of injury prevention has long struggled with the ‘splitting versus clumping’ dilemma. The most obvious example of this is our highlighting the burden of the injury as a whole (which is ever so much more a compelling figure than the burden of any of its components), and then addressing that burden by focusing, necessarily, on its component parts. A close look at the cause, and body part-injured codes in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)1 shows the extent to which efforts to reduce the burden of injury can be fragmented.However, the ICD classification goes only part way towards mapping the full range of specifics that fall within our territory. Information about individual injuries can be aggregated at the community, national or global levels but the specific aspects of each injury occurrence needs somehow to be captured. A range of scientific methods are used to do … ER -