Trends in paediatric injury rates using emergency department based injury surveillance

Shepherd, Michael

doi:10.1111/j.1753-6405.2010.00524.x

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“…In the case of infants’ hospital admissions, the vast majority were to one of two dedicated children's hospitals, many transferred from general hospitals in the catchment area, but in a few presumably more serious instances from further afield. The quality of the Brisbane paediatric data derived from the surveillance system described above has recently been examined in a prospective study and found to be reliable as an estimator of incidence and severity 14 . There is no thus reason to believe that our data are not representative in general terms of childhood injuries and the circumstances surrounding them.…”

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Injuries leading to hospitalisation in the first year of life: analysis by trimester of age using coded data and textual description

Siskind¹,

Scott²

2013

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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Objective: To describe unintentional injuries to children aged less than one year, using coded and textual information, in three‐month age bands to reflect their development over the year. Methods: Data from the Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit was used. The Unit collects demographic, clinical and circumstantial details about injured persons presenting to selected emergency departments across the State. Only injuries coded as unintentional in children admitted to hospital were included for this analysis. Results: After editing, 1,082 children remained for analysis, 24 with transport‐related injuries. Falls were the most common injury, but becoming proportionately less over the year, whereas burns and scalds and foreign body injuries increased. The proportion of injuries due to contact with persons or objects varied little, but poisonings were relatively more common in the first and fourth three‐month periods. Descriptions indicated that family members were somehow causally involved in 16% of injuries. Our findings are in qualitative agreement with comparable previous studies. Conclusion: The pattern of injuries varies over the first year of life and is clearly linked to the child's increasing mobility. Implications: Injury patterns in the first year of life should be reported over shorter intervals. Preventive measures for young children need to be designed with their rapidly changing developmental stage in mind, using a variety of strategies, one of which could be opportunistic developmentally specific education of parents.

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Injuries leading to hospitalisation in the first year of life: analysis by trimester of age using coded data and textual description

Siskind¹,

Scott²

2013

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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“…Information on the injury background of transferred children is sometimes sketchy, and in a busy emergency department data collection and coding may on occasion be imperfectly done. Nonetheless, as we reported in the previous paper, a prospective study has found data collected in this way to be reliable as an estimator of incidence and severity [ 26 ].…”

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Patterns of Injury in Hospitalised One-Year-Old Children: Analysis by Trimester of Age Using Coded Data and Textual Description

Scott

Siskind

2016

IJERPH

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The second year of life is a time of rapid developmental changes. This paper aims to describe the pattern of unintentional injuries to one-year old children in three-month age bands to better understand the risks associated with developmental stages and, therefore, identify opportunities for proactive prevention. Injury surveillance data were used to identify children admitted to hospital in Queensland, Australia for an unintentional injury from 2002–2012. Falls were the most common injury, followed by burns and scalds, contact injuries and poisonings. Falls and contact injuries remained roughly constant by age, burns and scalds decreased and poisonings (by medications) increased. Animal- and transport-related injuries also became more common, immersions and other threats to breathing less common. Within the falls and contact categories falls from play equipment and injuries due to contact with persons increased, while falls down stairs and catching fingers in doors decreased. The pattern of injuries varies over the second year of life and is clearly linked to the child’s increasing mobility and boldness. Preventive measures for young children need to be designed—and evaluated—with their developmental stage in mind, using a variety of strategies, including opportunistic, developmentally specific education of parents; and practitioners should also consider potential for lapses in supervision and possible intentional injury in all injury assessments.

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Trends in moderate to severe paediatric trauma in Central Netherlands

Janssens

Holtslag

Leenen

et al. 2014

Injury

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Trends in paediatric injury rates using emergency department based injury surveillance

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Injuries leading to hospitalisation in the first year of life: analysis by trimester of age using coded data and textual description

Injuries leading to hospitalisation in the first year of life: analysis by trimester of age using coded data and textual description

Patterns of Injury in Hospitalised One-Year-Old Children: Analysis by Trimester of Age Using Coded Data and Textual Description

Trends in moderate to severe paediatric trauma in Central Netherlands

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