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

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العنوان: Injuries leading to hospitalisation in the first year of life: analysis by trimester of age using coded data and textual description
المؤلفون: Debbie Scott, Victor Siskind
المصدر: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Vol 37, Iss 2, Pp 168-172 (2013)
بيانات النشر: Wiley, 2013.
سنة النشر: 2013
مصطلحات موضوعية: Male, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, injury, MEDLINE, causes of injury, Poison control, First year of life, Injury surveillance, Violence, Suicide prevention, Occupational safety and health, Injury prevention, Medicine, Humans, Trauma Severity Indices, business.industry, hospitalisation, Poisoning, lcsh:Public aspects of medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infant, Newborn, Human factors and ergonomics, lcsh:RA1-1270, Health Surveys, infant, Hospitalization, Accidents, Home, Population Surveillance, Wounds and Injuries, Accidental Falls, Female, Queensland, business, Burns, Emergency Service, Hospital, Demography
الوصف: 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. Language: en
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1326-0200
1753-6405
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https://doaj.org/article/97d4b41ef49e4b30a6e1e252c7cc33af
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