International surveys of occupational injuries among seafarers have so far been missing. It was the aim to test the method of self-report of injuries and length of time at risk during the latest duty period and second to study the injury incidence rate among seafarers by use of the method. A pilot study was conducted (n = 1068) in Finland, Denmark, the Philippines, Croatia and Spain using self-...

This descriptive and analytic study used a secondary data set to describe and compare medication use and agricultural injury experiences between younger (≤54 years old) and older (≥55 years old) farmers; and to examine the relationship between the use of specific classes of medication and reported agricultural injury. The study sample included a total of 316 farmers, age 26 to 80 years old; 103...

CONTEXT The shoulder is one of the most commonly injured body sites among athletes. Little previous research describes shoulder injury patterns in high school athletes. OBJECTIVE To describe and compare shoulder injury rates and patterns among high school athletes in 9 sports (football, soccer, basketball, baseball, and wrestling for boys and soccer, volleyball, basketball, and softball for g...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of coach-led neuromuscular warm-up on reducing lower extremity (LE) injuries in female athletes in a mixed-ethnicity, predominantly low-income, urban population. DESIGN Cluster randomized controlled trial. SETTING Chicago public high schools. PARTICIPANTS Of 258 coaches invited to participate, 95 (36.8%) enrolled (1558 athletes). Ninety coaches and...

CONTEXT Cheerleading injuries are on the rise and are a significant source of injury to females. No published studies have described the epidemiology of cheerleading injuries by type of cheerleading team and event. OBJECTIVE To describe the epidemiology of cheerleading injuries and to calculate injury rates by type of cheerleading team and event. DESIGN Prospective injury surveillance study...

BACKGROUND With the removal of gender restrictions and the changing nature of warfare potentially increasing female soldier exposure to heavy military load carriage, the aim of this research was to determine relative risks and patterns of load carriage related injuries in female compared to male soldiers. METHODS The Australian Defence Force Occupational Health, Safety and Compensation Analys...

From the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston. HEN the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued To Err Is Human,1 the recommendation to expand reporting of serious adverse events and medical errors, particularly mandatory reporting, received the most attention and sparked controversy.2 The American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association raised strong objections, claiming that ma...

OBJECTIVE To examine the incidence of head injury and symptoms of concussion among children at school and to determine the relationship of age, gender, and cause to incidence rates. DESIGN Incident reports involving head injury for schools in the Province of Ontario, Canada during the year 2000 were evaluated. PARTICIPANTS The population base for the schools represented was 1 372 979 childr...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The coverage of the official statistics is poor in motorcycle and moped accidents. The aim of this study was to analyze the severity of motorcycle and moped crashes, and to define the degree of under-reporting in official statistics. MATERIAL AND METHODS All first attendances due to an acute motorcyclist or moped driver injury registered in the emergency department between...

ABSTRACT The primary aim of the study is to determine rate traction-related complications in hip arthroscopy (HA) including perineal compression and distraction injuries, secondary objective report incidence HA found on studies selected by a systematic review. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews Meta-Analyses guidelines were used data extraction from PubMed Cochrane databases obtai...