Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention
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To quantify the effects of wearing a helmet on head and facial injury among users of motorized two-wheel vehicles and to determine if helmet use increases the risk of neck and cervical spine injury. ⋯ Helmets protect users of motorized two-wheel vehicles against head and facial injury without increasing the risk of neck or cervical spine injury.
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To examine recent trends and geographic variations in road-traffic deaths in China. ⋯ China's government should introduce and support measures to prevent road-traffic injuries. Developed and underdeveloped provinces in China should both be considered when road-traffic policy and interventions are developed.
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Identifying work-related injuries from hospitalization data is not straightforward. How a work-related injury, either acute or non-acute, is defined will affect injury enumeration, injury burden estimates, and subsequent priority setting for prevention activity. ⋯ Case-selection criteria adopted to identify work-related hospitalized injuries should be carefully considered. It is recommended that inclusion of certain musculoskeletal conditions that are likely to arise from repetitive minor trauma over time (ie non-acute injuries) should be considered in calculating the estimate of the burden of all work-related hospitalized injuries.
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Multicenter Study
Unintentional pediatric submersion-injury-related hospitalizations in the United States, 2003.
The objective of this study was to examine the demographic characteristics and hospital resource utilization of submersion-injury-related hospitalizations among persons < or =20 years of age in the USA in 2003. All 1475 pediatric submersion-injury-related hospital discharges in the Kids' Inpatient Database were identified by ICD-9-CM diagnosis code or external cause of injury code. These cases represent an estimated 2490 pediatric submersion-injury-related hospitalizations nationwide. ⋯ Children aged 0-4 years had the highest rate of hospitalization (7.7 per 100,000 persons). Children with permanent submersion-injury-related morbidity accounted for 5.8% of hospital admissions and 37.3% of hospital costs in our study, and children with submersion-injury-related in-hospital death accounted for 11.6% of hospital admissions and 20.0% of hospital costs in our study. Prevention of submersion injury using focused, proven strategies deserves increased attention.