38% of all unintentional adult injury presentations occurred in the home · 30% of the injuries resulted from falls · Falls were more common in older people particularly women · Injuries sustained by adults in the home were most commonly open wounds and sprains or strains · Almost half of ...
http://journals.sagepub.com/templates/jsp/images/arrow_up.gifDr.PatientDonnaPatientHaiduvenPatientMs.PatientShalahPatientFerrolPatientAAOHN JournalHaiduven D, Ferrol S. Sharps injuries in the home health care setting: risks for home health care workers. AAOHN J. 2004;52(3):102-8....
BACKGROUND: Unintentional injuries are a leading cause of death in the United States. It is unclear, however, what proportion of these injuries occur in the home. The purpose of this paper is to quantify and describe fatal unintentional injuries that take place in the home environment. METHODS...
A 26% reduction in the rate of injuries caused by falls at home per year exposed to the intervention was estimated in people allocated to the treatment group compared with those assigned to the control group, after adjustment for age, previous falls, sex, and ethnic origin (relative rate 0...
BACKGROUND: Unintentional injury is the leading cause of preventable death in children in the UK, and 0-4-year-olds frequently attend emergency departments following injuries in the home. Parenting programmes designed to support parents, promote behaviour change and enhance parent-child relationships ha...
Preventing unintentional injuries to children in the home: a systematic review of the effectiveness of programmes supplying and/or installing home safety e... In children under the age of five, the majority of unintentional injuries occur in the home, with higher levels of injury morbidity and ...
Homer's Iliad is considered to be a prominent and representative work of the tradition of the ancient Greek epic poetry. In this poem Homer presents the battles which took place during the last year of the 10-year lasting Trojan War between Achaeans and Trojans. We wanted to examine the che...
For traffic injuries this increase was 30% and for home and leisure injuries 16%. There was no significant change for sports injuries. In spite of preventive measures, the accident problem In The Netherlands is not decreasing. This means that preventive efforts should at least be maintained at ...
Approximately 8700 injuries from home exercise equipment occur annually in children in the United States. Home treadmills, which have been growing steadily in popularity during the past decade, pose a specific hazard to infants and children aged 5 years or younger, a population at increased risk ...
Yet, children on farms were injured even in the presence of adequate adult supervision. These findings, along with a growing body of literature examining pediatric farm injuries, suggest a need to develop a new definition of adequate adult supervision within the context of the agricultural work ...