Injuries leading to hospitalisation in the first year of life: analysis by trimester of age using coded data and textual description.

CONCLUSION: The pattern of injuries varies over the first year of life and is clearly linked to the child's increasing mobility. IMPLICATIONS: Injury patterns in the first year of life should be reported over shorter intervals. Preventive measures for young children need to be designed with their rapidly changing developmental stage in mind, using a variety of strategies, one of which could be opportunistic developmentally specific education of parents. PMID: 23551476 [PubMed - in process]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23551476?dopt=Abstract

Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health - April 1, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Siskind V, Scott D Tags: Aust N Z J Public Health Source Type: research