Patterns of moderate and severe injury in children after the introduction of major trauma networks. Jones, S., Tyson, S., Young, M., Gittins, M., & Davis, N. Archives of Disease in Childhood, November, 2018.
Patterns of moderate and severe injury in children after the introduction of major trauma networks [link]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
Objective To describe the demographics, mechanisms, presentation, injury patterns and outcomes for children with traumatic injuries. Setting Data collected from the UK’s Trauma and Audit Research Network. Design and patients The demographics, mechanisms of injury and outcomes were described for children with moderate and severe injuries admitted to the Major Trauma Network in England between 2012 and 2017. Results Data regarding 9851 children were collected. Most (69%) were male. The median age was 6.4 (SD 5.2) years, but infants aged 0.1 year (36.5 days) were the most frequently injured of all ages (0–15 years); 447 (36.0%) of injuries in infants aged \textless1 year were from suspected child abuse. Most injuries occurred in the home, from falls \textless2 m, after school hours, at weekends and during the summer. The majority of injuries were of moderate severity (median Injury Severity Score 9.0, SD 8.7). The limbs and pelvis, followed by the head, were the most frequently and most severely injured body parts. Ninety-two per cent were discharged home and 72.8% made a ‘good recovery’ according to the Glasgow Outcome Scale. 3.1% of children died, their median age was 7.0 years (SD 5.8), but infants were the most commonly fatally injured group. Conclusions A common age of injury and mortality was infants aged \textless1 year. Accident prevention strategies need to focus on the prevention of non-accidental injuries in infants. Trauma services need to be organised to accommodate peak presentation times, which are after school, weekends and the summer.
@article{jones_patterns_2018,
	title = {Patterns of moderate and severe injury in children after the introduction of major trauma networks},
	copyright = {© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2018. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.},
	issn = {0003-9888, 1468-2044},
	url = {https://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2018/11/22/archdischild-2018-315636},
	doi = {10.1136/archdischild-2018-315636},
	abstract = {Objective To describe the demographics, mechanisms, presentation, injury patterns and outcomes for children with traumatic injuries.
Setting Data collected from the UK’s Trauma and Audit Research Network.
Design and patients The demographics, mechanisms of injury and outcomes were described for children with moderate and severe injuries admitted to the Major Trauma Network in England between 2012 and 2017.
Results Data regarding 9851 children were collected. Most (69\%) were male. The median age was 6.4 (SD 5.2) years, but infants aged 0.1 year (36.5 days) were the most frequently injured of all ages (0–15 years); 447 (36.0\%) of injuries in infants aged {\textless}1 year were from suspected child abuse. Most injuries occurred in the home, from falls {\textless}2 m, after school hours, at weekends and during the summer. The majority of injuries were of moderate severity (median Injury Severity Score 9.0, SD 8.7). The limbs and pelvis, followed by the head, were the most frequently and most severely injured body parts. Ninety-two per cent were discharged home and 72.8\% made a ‘good recovery’ according to the Glasgow Outcome Scale. 3.1\% of children died, their median age was 7.0 years (SD 5.8), but infants were the most commonly fatally injured group.
Conclusions A common age of injury and mortality was infants aged {\textless}1 year. Accident prevention strategies need to focus on the prevention of non-accidental injuries in infants. Trauma services need to be organised to accommodate peak presentation times, which are after school, weekends and the summer.},
	language = {en},
	urldate = {2018-12-19},
	journal = {Archives of Disease in Childhood},
	author = {Jones, Samantha and Tyson, Sarah and Young, Michael and Gittins, Matthew and Davis, Naomi},
	month = nov,
	year = {2018},
	pmid = {30470686},
	pages = {archdischild--2018--315636},
}

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