Burden and Costs of Severe Burn Injury in Victoria, Australia

Quad bike related injury in Victoria, Australia.

OBJECTIVE To enumerate and describe fatal and hospital-treated injury associated with quad bike use in Victoria. DESIGN Retrospective descriptive analysis of coronial records and hospital-treated injury data (2002-03 to 2010-11). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Number of quad bike-related fatalities, hospital admissions, emergency department (ED) presentations, and results of a trend and severity ana...

The burden of disease and injury in Australia.

An overview of the results of the Australian Burden of Disease (ABD) study is presented. The ABD study was the first to use methodology developed for the Global Burden of Disease study to measure the burden of disease and injury in a developed country. In 1996, mental disorders were the main causes of disability burden, responsible for nearly 30% of total years of life lost to disability (YLD),...

Trends in severe traumatic brain injury in Victoria, 2006-2014.

OBJECTIVE To describe the incidence and causes of hospitalisation for severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) in Victoria over a 9-year period. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A retrospective review of data from the population-based Victorian State Trauma Registry for hospitalised cases of severe TBI, 2006-2014. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Temporal trends in the incidence of severe TBI and in causes...

Burn injury in Mottahari Burn Center in Tehran, Iran

Measles surveillance in Victoria, Australia.

OBJECTIVE Many countries are implementing measles elimination strategies. In Australia, the State of Victoria has conducted enhanced measles surveillance since 1997 using case interviews and home-based specimen collection for laboratory confirmation. We attempted to identify features of notified cases that would better target surveillance resources. METHODS We retrospectively classified notif...