Background and aim: To reveal the risks of in-hospital falls and to work out countermeasures against them. Methods: We retrospectively evaluated 857 in-hospital falls which have been reported to risk-management department, out of 617275 patients who were hospitalized in our hospital from April 1, 2009 to June 30, 2011. The following factors were considered; (A) age, (B) main department, the pri...

The current study applied a fault tree analysis to represent the causal relationships among events and causes that contributed to fatal falls in the construction industry. Four hundred and eleven work-related fatalities in the Taiwanese construction industry were analyzed in terms of age, gender, experience, falling site, falling height, company size, and the causes for each fatality. Given tha...

introduction: this study was conducted to determine the pattern of maxillofacial fractures in three age groups of adults, adolescents, and children, using ct scan images. methods: in this cross-sectional study, ct scan images of 230 patients with maxillofacial trauma during one year were examined in terms of the number and site of fractures. the patients were divided into three age groups, chil...

Goldman, Joichi, and White proved a beautiful theorem showing that the falling factorial generating function for the rook numbers of a Ferrers board factors over the integers. Briggs and Remmel studied an analogue of rook placements where rows are replaced by sets of m rows called levels. They proved a version of the factorization theorem in that setting, but only for certain Ferrers boards. We...

Occupational risk assessment is important for providing employees with a safe and healthy work environment. When compared other industries, the construction industry poses higher accidents due to variety complexity of skills required different types in sector. Small-sized sites have occupational injury. Countries without safety health (OSH) enforcement pose an additional increasing need effecti...

introduction: traumatic brain injuries (tbi) are one of the most important causes of death in patients under the age of 25 years and is responsible for one third of total deaths caused by trauma. therefore, knowing its epidemiologic pattern in different populations seems vital. therefore, this study aims to examine the epidemiologic pattern of tbi in emergency department. methods: in this cross...