Patterns of paediatric facial fractures in a hospital of São Paulo, Brazil: A retrospective study of 3 years

The bicycle accident in Brazil: an integrative review / Os acidentes de bicicleta no Brasil: uma revisão integrativa

“…Of the total of 643 articles captured in the databases defined in this review, 605 (94%) were held outside Brazil. Of the 15 articles analyzed in our study, we noticed that these were published in nine different journals, among which we highlight those in the area of public/collective health 7,8,15,18,19,20,21 who collaborated with 46.6% of the researches and those of oral and maxillofacial surgery and traumatology, 9,11,12,13,16,17 that represented 40% of the sources of information. Two articles were published in journals related to urban traffic engineering and safety 10,14 (13.4%).…”

“…Regarding the year of publication, most of the studies were published in 2010, totaling four surveys 12,13,14,15 and accounting for 26.6% of the total sample and in the year 2013 with three publications, 7,8,9 participating with 20% of the published works.…”

“…Regarding the region of the research, the studies were concentrated in the South (40%), totaling six studies 11,14,15,18,19,20 ,of which 66.6% were performed in Pelotas 14,15,18,19 and Southeast (40%) also with six studies 9,12,13,16,17,21 , highlighting the studies carried out in São Paulo 9,12,16,17 . The Northeast region contributed with two studies 7,8 (13.3%) and there was a study that considered Brazil as a analysis unit 23 , corresponding to 6.6%.…”

“…When analyzing the approach, it was identified that all the researches [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] were observational studies, of which 9 studies (60%) were within Level III of evidence 7,8,11,13,14,15,16,17,19 and 6 studies (40%) were within level IV of evidence 9,10,12,18,20,21 .…”

“…The publications were produced from different sources of information. It is noted that 80% of the studies used secondary data, of which 6 studies (40%) performed a patient chart analysis 9,11,12,13,16,17 ; in three studies (20%) the data were collected from the Mortality Information System 7,8,10 and three studies (20%) analyzed the Military Police incident reports 19,20,21 . Three studies (20%) did not use secondary data as a source of information, which was obtained through a structured interview 14,15,18 .…”