Michigan Intimate Partner Violence Surveillance System (MIPVSS)

Funding Source: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through the Michigan Department of Community Health, Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Control, Injury Prevention Section

Project Period: January 1, 1999 - September 30, 2005

Project Coordinator:Cheribeth Tan-Schriner, PhD

The Michigan Intimate Partner Violence Surveillance System (MIPVSS), funded by the CDC, is a surveillance system of violence against women based on (1) a subset of Emergency Department injury cases from the Michigan Emergency Department Community Injury Information Network (MEDCIIN) that have an E-code or primary diagnosis of assault, and (2) data on cases related to domestic violence (DV) obtained from a representative sample of county prosecuting attorneys (PA) offices. The surveillance system was a source of information on intimate partner violence against women in Michigan. This system allowed: (1) the characterization of victims and perpetrators of this violence; (2) identification of high-risk groups; (3) monitoring of trends in incidence; and (4) more comprehensive evaluation of the effectiveness of violence prevention policies and interventions.

MPHI-CDMTR has been extensively involved in the surveillance system since its inception, from the designing of the system to setting up the structure for the surveillance databases, working with hospital information systems and prosecuting attorney offices personnel, translating and standardizing electronic data, manually abstracting data from paper files when necessary, processing and analyzing the data, and preparing reports.

Project Type: Surveillance, Data Management