Questionnaires were sent concerning all of the patients aged 0-15 years who were admitted to the Ringkøbing County Hospitals during the period 1.1.1982 to 31.8.1989 with head injuries. The object of the questionnaires was to elucidate the circumstances of the accident which resulted in hospitalization. Questionnaires concerning 988 patients (67.5%) were returned. Definite accumulation of the ac...

Yaşlı bireyler içinde bulundukları dönemden dolayı yaşamlarında fizyolojik, sosyal ve psikolojik yönden birçok değişimleri deneyimlemektedir. Yaşlılarda meydana gelen değişimler ev kazaları düşmelerin gerçekleşmesine yol açmaktadır. düşme olayının görülme sıklığı oldukça yüksektir. Ev düşmeler yaşlılığın getirdiği durumlardan kaynaklandığı gibi yaşlıların ortamından çevresinden de kaynaklanmakt...

Madam, The home can be a dangerous place for children; they spend most of their time there and it is where most accidents happen.1 In case-1 four year female child presented with history of hit against table edge while playing at home. Following that she sustained partial avulsion of the scalp (Figure-1). There was no history of loss of consciousness, vomiting, convulsion ear or nasal bleed. Th...

Experience in our hospital and figures from the Home Accident Surveillance System indicate that the number of accidents involving baby walkers is increasing. Safety specifications issued by the British Standards Institution are rarely, if ever, met in full by manufacturers. Home accident prevention measures have been shown to be of limited benefit. We advocate more stringent implementation of s...

This report, prepared for the National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research, explores the economic implications of sleepiness in relation to accidents. In Part One, I describe the frequency of accidents in the United States and explain a method for estimating the economic cost of these of accidents. Accidents are the fourth leading cause of mortality in the United States, and motor-vehicle ac...

Methods Problems in the design of epidemiologic studies may be categorized conveniently into those related to ascertainment and those concerned with sampling. Sampling problems confronted in home accident studies are not different, in any essential way, from those encountered in any other epidemiologic studies. With reference to sampling, the epidemiologic critics are far in advance of epidemio...

OBJECTIVE To examine the risk of disability from unintentional injury in teenagers and young adults. METHODS Analyses of data from the National Child Development Study, a follow up study of 98% of all children born in England, Scotland, and Wales in one week in March, 1958. In 1981, 12,537 study participants, 76% of the original cohort, were asked about unintentional injuries since age 16 yea...