Active surveillance involves the regular monitoring of surveillance sites by designated persons. These persons often call up a site to gather information on injury events that happened in the previous month or week. One example of this process would be the surveillance of injuries from domestic violence in emergency departments. Research personnel would contact emergency departments on a regular interval to identify injury events from domestic violence. As no data sources routinely identify domestic violence injuries, this type of active surveillance is necessary to identify the incidence of domestic violence events.