OBJECTIVE To demonstrate the effect of including both principal and secondary injuries in the calculation of national estimates of non-fatal motor vehicle-related injury, using the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System-All Injury Program (NEISS-AIP). METHODS The setting was a stratified sample of 15 US hospital emergency departments selected among 50 NEISS-AIP hospitals which agreed ...

Objective: To determine incidence rates of reported work health and safety (WHS) incidents and injuries in Army Reserve (ARES) and Australian Regular Army (ARA) personnel and assess the relative performance of the WHS incident reporting system, compared to ‘point-of-care’ systems Methods: WHS incident data for a 24-month period were extracted from a military database Reported WHS incident and i...

BACKGROUND With its increase in participation rate and complex stunts and gymnastic-like maneuvers, cheerleading injuries are on the rise. OBJECTIVE A structured narrative review of the literature was performed to discover the status of the literature on a growing yet under recognized sport. Cheerleading injuries are described in terms of distribution, etiology, and prevention. METHODS A li...

BACKGROUND Contemporary war-related studies focus primarily on adults with few reporting the injuries sustained in local pediatric populations. The objective of this study is to characterize pediatric vascular trauma at US military hospitals in wartime Iraq and Afghanistan. METHODS Review of the Department of Defense Trauma Registry (DoDTR) (2002-2011) identified patients (1-17 years old) tre...

BACKGROUND Wrestling holds worldwide popularity, and large numbers of United States high school and college males participate. However, the sport's arduous nature results in high injury rates. HYPOTHESIS Wrestling injury rates and patterns will differ between high school and college practice and match exposures. STUDY DESIGN Descriptive epidemiology study. METHODS Wrestling-related injury...

BACKGROUND There are limited studies describing the epidemiology of childhood brain injury, especially in developing countries. This study analyses data from the Malaysian National Trauma Database (NTrD) registry to estimate the incidence of childhood brain injury among various demographic groups within the state of Selangor and Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur. METHODS This study analysed a...

Agriculture has among the highest numbers and rates of fatal and nonfatal traumatic injuries in the U.S. Surveillance is an integral part of injury prevention. However, traditional sources of surveillance data are incomplete and inaccurate in describing agricultural injuries. The goals of this research are to describe acute, traumatic farm injuries in Ohio utilizing the Ohio EMS prehospital (am...

Background Lacrosse and ice hockey are quickly growing in popularity, while football remains the most popular sport among high school student-athletes. Injuries remain a concern, given the physical nature of these contact sports. Purpose To describe the rates and patterns of injuries sustained as a result of intentional player contact in United States high school boys' football, ice hockey, a...