Advancing Injury Prevention and Trauma Care in North America and Globally

Children at risk of medicinal and non-medicinal poisoning: a population-based case-control study in general practice

“…25 In addition, children may observe parents or older siblings taking medicines, and the development of imitation behaviour around the age of 18-24 months may partly explain the higher risk of medicinal than non-medicinal poisoning in children aged over 2 years, 26 and there is some evidence that increased risks of poisonings from medications may be directly related to prescribed medications for depression. 27,28 The protective effect of two-adult households is consistent with findings from previous work, 13 and may be explained by support with childcare, supervisory practices, and parental psychological wellbeing. 8,13,29 The present findings with respect to birth order, maternal age, household composition, and deprivation are also consistent with those of other studies.…”

Time intervals in the treatment of fractured femurs as indicators of the quality of trauma systems

“…1,2 Rising awareness among policy-makers of the burden of injury 3 has led to an increased need for easily quantifiable metrics to improve the allocation of resources for the treatment of injuries. [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] The intervals involved in the treatment of femur fractures -injury to admission, admission to surgery and surgery to discharge -are easily measurable and may be useful in evaluating the efficiency with which a trauma system treats an injured patient.…”

“…12,13 The annual incidence of injury-related deaths is also substantially higher in low-and middle-income countries than in high-income countries: 89 versus 51 per 100 000 inhabitants, respectively. 3 Injuries caused by motorized vehicles are currently the tenth leading cause of DALYs, are projected to be the third highest cause of DALYs by 2020 [14][15][16][17][18][19] and are the leading cause of death among individuals aged 15-29 years. 1 In low-and middle-income countries, the rapid increase in industrialization -without concomitant improvements in infrastructure -is likely to lead to a rise in the incidence of injuries caused by motorized vehicles.…”

Piloting a trauma surveillance tool for primary healthcare emergency centres

“…National or provincial statistics are also not always freely available, with delays in compilation, and are sometimes unreliable as a result of underreporting. 6 Evaluations of the effectiveness of injury prevention and trauma systems should be based on data that are representative of the population during all phases of care. 7 However, trauma surveillance at primary healthcare level in the Western Cape is currently non-existent.…”