The New Zealand medical journal
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The purpose of this study is to determine how children are transported to and from hospital, and to understand caregivers' car restraint knowledge base. ⋯ There is an opportunity for child health professionals to provide support to families with children in hospital by collaborating with established child restraint rental agencies and making best practice child restraint advice and products more readily available. New Zealand law should be updated to require the use of child car restraints beyond a child's fifth birthday.
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To assess the utility of a decision rule for determining short-term risk in syncope patients presenting to the Emergency Department (ED) of Nelson Hospital (Nelson, New Zealand). ⋯ Syncope patients who present to the ED with no obvious cause and who are being considered for discharge may benefit from application of the SFSR for short-term risk assessment.
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After a spate of recent New Zealand cyclist deaths, cycle advocates and several policy makers have been pondering the issue of increased penalties aimed at drivers deemed at fault. A key question is whether vulnerable road users (VRUs), including pedestrians, workers, animal riders, stranded motorists, skateboarders, cyclists, and others, are likely to be protected through enhanced penalties for at fault drivers of motor vehicles. We explored current policy and the international literature to examine whether or not enhanced penalties would be likely to increase motor vehicle driver motivation to exercise greater caution around VRUs leading to improved road safety.