Background The research literature was systematically reviewed and results were summarized from studies assessing bicycle helmet effectiveness to mitigate head, serious head, face, neck and fatal head injury in a crash or fall. Methods Four electronic databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, COMPENDEX and SCOPUS) were searched for relevant, peer-reviewed articles in English. Included studies reported medi...

BACKGROUND Despite high mortality from injuries and accidents, data on rates and distribution of non-fatal injuries in Central and Eastern European populations are scarce. METHODS Cross-sectional study of random population samples of 45-69-year-old men and women (n = 28 600) from Novosibirsk (Russia), Krakow (Poland) and six Czech towns, participating in the Health, Alcohol and Psychosocial f...

Injury and collision data from London’s Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) and the UK’s Police fatal files were used to quantify and describe the nature of pedestrian head injury and investigate the causes. The HEMS data relating to all pedestrian accidents since 2000 was analysed with respect to their injuries, and the cost of these injuries was estimated using the time they spent on ...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Since 1980, injuries have been the second biggest cause of death among the Brazilian population. This study aimed to analyze national data on fatal injuries and nonfatal injury hospitalization in Brazil, for 2003. DESIGN AND SETTING This was a population-based descriptive study, Brazil, 2003. METHODS Data from 126,520 fatal injuries and 733,712 nonfatal injuries seen a...

BACKGROUND The US commercial fishing industry is hazardous, as measured by mortality data. However, research on non-fatal injuries is limited. Non-fatal injuries constitute the majority of occupational injuries and can result in workers' lowered productivity and wages, lost quality of life, and disability. In the United States, a Work Process Classification System (WPCS) has previously been app...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To identify behavioral, environmental, and sociodemographic risk factors associated with non-fatal firearm injuries among inner city adolescents in the United States. DESIGN A case-control study in which patients with firearm injury serve as cases and those with medical conditions serve as controls. SETTING A level I trauma center in a metropolitan area serving a predominat...