However, just as recent celebrated accidents in medicine have directed attention to patient safety, previous highly visible accidents in other industries, such as power generation and transportation drew attention to issues surrounding the label “human error” (e.g., Three Mile Island in 1979; the capsizing of the Herald of Free Enterprise in 1982; various aircraft accidents). The intense intere...

BACKGROUND As mortality is more and more concentrated at old age, it becomes critical to identify the determinants of old age mortality. It has counter-intuitively been found that mortality rates at all ages are higher during short-term increases in economic growth. Work-stress is found to be a contributing factor to this association, but cannot explain the association for the older, retired po...

The objective of this study is to reach a better understanding of accidents on Swedish roads involving tractors and to suggest ways of preventing them. In an earlier study we analyzed police-reported fatal accidents and accidents that led to physical injuries from 1992 to 2005. During each year of this period, tractors were involved in 128 traffic accidents on average, an average of 7 people we...

background injuries and accidents are the first cause of death in the first 5 years of children life in the world; the present study was conducted to investigate the extent and distribution of accidents in the infants under one year in hamadan province, iran. materials and methods:this cross-sectional descriptive-analytic study was carried out using of   data of injuries and accidents related t...

Minor bicycle accidents are defined as "bicycle accidents not involving death or heavily injured persons, implying that possible hospital visits last less than 24 hours". Statistics about these accidents and related injuries are very poor, because they are mostly not reported to police, hospitals or insurance companies. Yet, they form a major share of all bicycle accidents. Official registratio...

PURPOSE This study evaluated the trends and factors associated with maxillofacial fractures treated from 1997 to 2007 in the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department of the Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital. METHODS This study included 364 patients of which 82% were men and 45%, 20-29-years old. The etiology, anatomical distribution, treatment modality and complications of maxillofacial f...

OBJECTIVES To examine the impact of presumed consent legislation on organ donation and to review data on attitudes to presumed consent among the public, professionals and any other stakeholders. DATA SOURCES Eight electronic databases (MEDLINE, MEDLINE In-Process, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, HMIC, PAIS International and OpenSIGLE) were searched from inception to January 2008. Supplementary inte...

roads are crucial to our everyday lives as we use them  by driving, riding, walking or travelling as a pedestrian. worldwide, more than  1.2 million people are killed on roads every year and up to 50 million more are injured; with most casualties from developing countries. in addition to different disabilities, road.accidents cause extensive psychological disorders and grief, and occasionally e...

background accident is an event that occurs suddenly, unexpectedly and inadvertently under unforeseen circumstances. accidents can have individual, social and economical effects 2080 injury cases including labor-law workers were studied in mashhad city, islamic republic of iran. their data were collected from the labor office archive. objectives this study was conducted to determine the effecti...