The Joint Commission defines sentinel event as “an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury, or the risk thereof. Serious injury specifically includes loss of limb or function. The phrase ‘or the risk thereof ’ includes any process variation for which a recurrence would carry a significant chance of a serious adverse outcome.” Since its inception in 1996...

This study assessed age-related and gender differences in the relative contribution of fragility and crash over-representation to serious injuries per crash-involved driver in Western Australia. Police-reported crashes for the period 1998-2003 were extracted from the Western Australian Road Injury Database. For each passenger vehicle driver age and gender group, serious injuries per crash-invol...

background: needle injuries are one of the most important hazards threatening the health of medical personnel, which can transmit more than 20 infectious pathogens. this study was conducted in order to evaluate the knowledge and practice of the medical staff at ali-ebne-abitaleb hospital of rafsanjan, iran, in regard to the hazards of needle injuries. methods: this cross sectional study was con...

BACKGROUND Improving outcomes after serious injury is important to patients, patients' families, and healthcare providers. Identifying early risk factors for long-term disability after injury will help critical care providers recognize patients at risk. OBJECTIVES To identify early predictors of long-term disability after injury and to ascertain if age, level of disability before injury, post...

Three child fall issues have been selected by VISU for special focus because of the major contribution they make to serious fall injury, and their preventability: (1) playground equipment fall injury (26% of fall injury hospital admissions); (2) furniture-related fall injury: chairs, beds, tables and other furniture (11%); and (3) fall injury involving ice skates, skis, roller skates, skateboar...

In a case-control study we sought to assess the potential effectiveness of helmets in preventing facial injuries. Our study included 212 bicyclists with facial injuries and 319 controls with injuries to other body areas, who were treated in emergency rooms of five Seattle area hospitals over a one-year period. Using regression analyses to control for age, sex, education and income, accident sev...