Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit Research Articles

BUTTON BATTERY INGESTION AND INSERTION BY CHILDREN—AN INTERNATIONAL APPROACH TO AN EMERGING DANGEROUS INJURY

The Seminar will include a variety of presenters, on behalf of• Product safety regulators—USA, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Japan• Community organisations—Safe Kids Worldwide, Safe Kids USA, Safe Kids Canada, Safekids...

Batteries not included: identifying disc battery injury in a health setting

BackgroundThe risk of severe injury and death associated with ingestion or insertion of disc batteries is being recognised by product safety regulators, injury prevention practitioners and specialised clinical health groups...

Prioritising children product safety initiatives based on frequency, severity & product causality: a secondary data analysis of Queensland injury surveillance unit data

BackgroundIn product safety system and injury prevention fields, resource allocations are prioritised to issues with high frequency, severity and preventability. Based on these indicators, injury surveillance data are expected to...

BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED: IDENTIFYING DISC BATTERY INJURY IN A HEALTH SETTING

BackgroundThe risk of severe injury and death associated with ingestion or insertion of disc batteries is being recognised by product safety regulators, injury prevention practitioners and specialised clinical health groups...

Button battery ingestion and insertion by children—an international approach to an emerging dangerous injury

The Seminar will include a variety of presenters, on behalf of• Product safety regulators—USA, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Japan• Community organisations—Safe Kids Worldwide, Safe Kids USA, Safe Kids Canada, Safekids...

Injuries sustained by young males in construction during day and night work

The increased participation of young workers in the construction industry is matched by a growing realization of the vulnerability of these workers in terms of occupational injury and disease. The impact of organizational issues on injury rates for young workers is examined. This is an under‐researched area where physical and psychological development influences have traditionally dominated. Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics on labour force participation and work hours and data from the Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit on patients presenting at hospital emergency departments were used to examine incidence and severity of injuries sustained by young workers in construction on different shifts. Analyses indicated a different pattern of injury for young workers and workers outside this age category. Young workers were consistently more likely to be injured than all other workers, and this injury rate ratio increased significantly on night shift, suggesting that injury prevention strategies should consider the temporal pattern of work for young workers in construction.

Examining the validity of emergency department textual data for injury surveillance purposes

Injury surveillance data provides the evidence base to inform injury prevention programme and policy development. The Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit (QISU) collects data on emergency department (ED) injury presentations at...

Nonfatal drowning in children and young people in Queensland (Australia) 2002–2008

Literature exists on fatal drowning events, however, the incidence, mechanisms and consequences of nonfatal drowning episodes remain largely unexplored. Additionally, drowning episodes among adolescents have not been previously studied in...