Does the current New Zealand case definition of serious non-fatal injury miss a material number of serious injury cases?

The effect of new road traffic laws on fatal and non-fatal injury rates in Iran

Background and aims: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of enforcement of new traffic laws on the fatal and non- fatal injury rates in Iran. Methods: In a longitudinal, interventional controlled trial study, all subjects with history of fatal and non-fatal injuries were studied. Their injuries were caused by six risky violations (unauthorized speed, illegal overtaking, red traffic light c...

Identifying Māori ethnicity for estimating trends in fatal and serious non-fatal injury.

OBJECTIVES Counts of mortality and morbidity based on routinely collected national datasets have undercounted Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand. To correct for the undercount, when estimating fatal and serious non-fatal injury incidence, the 'ever-Māori' method has been used. This study sought to determine how well the ever-Māori method corrects for the undercount. METHODS Trends in...

The New Zealand serious non-fatal self-harm indicators: how valid are they for monitoring trends?

BACKGROUND To monitor accurately injury incidence trends, indicators should measure incidence independently of extraneous factors. Frequencies and rates of New Zealand's serious non-fatal self-harm indicators may be prone to fluctuations in reporting owing, for example, to changing social norms. Hence, they have been considered provisional. AIM To validate empirically the serious non-fatal se...

Automatic top loader washing machine related injury. A report of four cases with serious injury.

We are reporting four cases of serious washing machine related injury that presented within a period of 5 months. All patients were young children with the mean age of 9 year-old and three had their dominant hand injured. The washing machines involved were the automatic top loader type and all injuries occurred during the spinning phase. Serious automatic washing machine injury is not uncommon ...

The burden of serious ocular injury.