Australian and New Zealand journal of public health
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Aust N Z J Public Health · Jun 2010
Trends in paediatric injury rates using emergency department based injury surveillance.
The primary aim of this study was to develop a method of calculating paediatric injury rate from Emergency Department injury surveillance data and use this to describe trends in paediatric injury. This study also aimed to establish whether triage category could be used as an indicator of severity. ⋯ The methodology used in this study is easily repeatable and could be used to evaluate injury prevention interventions. The prevention and management of injury should be directed by accurate injury incidence data.