The Prospective Outcomes of Injury Study (POIS) has influenced Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) research strategy and outcomes focus, according to researchers from the Ngāi Tahu Māori Health Research Unit at Otago University, Dunedin. The study has provided disability, health, and wellbeing outcomes knowledge that was previously unavailable, especially for Māori, they noted. POIS recruited 2856 injured New Zealanders with an ACC entitlement claim between 2007 and 2009, of whom 20% were Māori. Detailed information was shared by participants (at 3, 12 and 24 months, and 12 years post-injury) regarding injury, socio-demographics, health, health services access, employment and wellbeing. In-depth interviews were also undertaken, and administrative data about injury-related hospitalisations, the sentinel injury and subsequent injuries were collected.
