Wounds and Injuries
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Measuring injury risk perceptions: feasibility of a Risk Estimation Scale.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVES: To develop a scale for measuring parental perceptions of childhood injury risk. METHODS: The Worry Assessment and Risk Estimation (WARE) Scale was administered to 256 parents/guardians to examine reliability, factor structure, and ... Read more...

Analyses of injury count data: some do's and don'ts.

5 Oct 2009 The analysis of injury data requires different considerations from the analysis of other types of outcomes because an individual can experience the outcome many times. When describing injury patterns using numerator-only data (e.g., proportion of ... Read more...

Historical perspective: neurological advances from studies of war injuries and illnesses.

29 Sep 2009 Early in the 20th century during the Russo-Japanese War and World War I (WWI), some of the most important, lasting contributions to clinical neurology were descriptive clinical studies, especially those concerning war-related peripheral nerve ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Wounds and Injuries'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Transfusion for trauma in Australia. 30 Oct 2009
• Invited commentary. 30 Oct 2009
• Emergency traumatologists in trauma care. 30 Oct 2009
• Measuring injury risk perceptions: feasibility of a Risk Estimation Scale. 30 Oct 2009
• Pain management and sedation for children in the emergency department. 28 Oct 2009
• Children in deprived areas at most risk of road injuries. 24 Oct 2009
• Analyses of injury count data: some do's and don'ts. 5 Oct 2009
• Historical perspective: neurological advances from studies of war injuries and illnesses. 29 Sep 2009
• Rear-seat motor vehicle travel in the U.S.: using national data to define a population at risk. 29 Sep 2009
• Why do whales beach themselves? Are strandings increasing? 29 Sep 2009
• Traumatic diaphragmatic injury: experience from a level I trauma center. 29 Sep 2009
• Association between health education needs and stroke caregiver injury. 29 Sep 2009
• Transfusion for trauma: the French army policy. 29 Sep 2009
• Traumatic haemorrhage: a role for recombinant factor VIIa? 29 Sep 2009
• The role of children's routines of daily living, supervision, and maternal fatigue in preschool children's injury risk. 29 Sep 2009
• The effectiveness of antilock brake systems on motorcycles in reducing real-life crashes and injuries. 29 Sep 2009
• The impact of replacing heavy passenger vehicles (LTVs and SUVs) in the British Columbia fleet with lighter versions. 29 Sep 2009
• Comparison of distributions of key predictor variables in CIREN and NASS-CDS cases meeting CIREN inclusion criteria. 29 Sep 2009
• Use of car crashes resulting in fatal and serious injuries to analyze a safe road transport system model and to identify system weaknesses. 29 Sep 2009
• Belt use: comparison of NASS-CDS and police crash reports. 29 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Wounds and Injuries'

Definition: Damage inflicted on the body as the direct or indirect result of an external force, with or without disruption of structural continuity.

Descriptor UI: D014947

Alternative terms: Wounds and Injuries; Wounds, Injury; Trauma; Traumas; Wounds and Injury; Injury and Wounds; Injuries and Wounds; Injuries, Wounds; Wounds; Wound; Injuries; Injury;

Related Mesh Headings: First Aid; Transportation of Patients;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C21.866;

Online Note: pre-explosion = WOUNDS A#D INJURIES (PX)

Technical Notes: GEN or unspecified; prefer /inj with organs (Manual 19.7+, 19.8.38) or specific organ /inj precoords; policy: Manual 23.23+; types of wounds are also available, as WOUNDS, PENETRATING, etc.; MULTIPLE TRAUMA is available; wound suction: coord wd & inj concept with DRAINAGE; DF: WOUNDS