OBJECTIVE Many state trauma registries contain work-related information but are underutilized for occupational injury research/surveillance. We assessed three methods of identifying work-related injuries in the Washington State Trauma Registry (WTR). METHODS State-designated trauma facilities report traumatic injuries meeting specific inclusion criteria to the WTR. The WTR reports from 1998 t...

OBJECTIVES To explore injured patients' experiences of trauma care to identify areas for improvement in service delivery. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Qualitative study using in-depth, semi-structured interviews, conducted from 1 April 2011 to 31 January 2012, with 120 trauma patients registered by the Victorian State Trauma Registry and the Victorian Orthopaedic Trauma Outcomes Registry ...

Managers of the nearly 0.5 million ha of public lands in North and South Dakota, USA rely heavily on manual measurements of canopy height in autumn to ensure conservation of grassland structure for wildlife and forage for livestock. However, more comprehensive assessment of vegetation structure could be achieved for mixed-grass prairie by integrating field survey, topographic position (summit, ...

Highway work zones interrupt regular traffic flows and create safety problems. Improving safety without sacrificing the main function of highways is a challenging task that traffic engineers and researchers have to confront. In this study, the concept of using crash severity index (CSI) for work zone safety evaluation was proposed and a set of CSI models were developed through the modeling of w...

The present investigation was undertaken with the objectives to assess the mental and motor development of infants; to ascertain, the difference between male and female infants. The study was conducted in Hamirpur block of Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh. A total of 210 infants (105 males and 105 females) from eight villages were randomly selected for this study. Bayley’s scale was used t...

The present study attempts to answer the question, which is not considered in United Nations’ annual Human Development Reports, namely, how spatial patterns of world countries differ terms human development indices. quantitative research includes three phases. First, functional relations between indices were analysed based on Moran’s I and data fitted by linear regression. Second, clustering re...

The purpose of this research is to find out that the do sport policy, sports infrastructure and funding have any significant relative contribution in predicting sustainable development Kwara State. method used descriptive survey type. population study consisted 127 coordinators trainers sampling technique purposive sampling. sample amounted 112 respondents. data collection instrument a self-dev...