The study was designed to study the impact of a child passenger safety law on pediatric motor vehicle trauma, as seen from the perspective of a hospital emergency room setting. The data was obtained from an ongoing monitoring system in hospital emergency rooms and the Coroner's Office. All children under the age of 15 years evaluated in the monitored emergency rooms after involvement in a motor vehicle incident were included. 1981-1982 constituted the pre-legislative years; 1983-1984 were the post-legislative years. The major findings for children less than 4 years (covered by the law) were: (1) Restraint use increased from 265 pre-legislation to 50% in the post-legislation period among the hospital based sample. (2) A significant increase in those medically determined to be uninjured was documented. (3) Among those injured there was no significant change in the severe and critical injuries. (4) Head injuries decreased by 165. (6) There was a significant decrease in the number of noncrash injured children in the post legislation period, 17% to 7%.


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    Titel :

    Effects of Safety Seat Legislation on Pediatric Trauma


    Beteiligte:
    P. Agran (Autor:in) / D. Dunkle (Autor:in) / D. Winn (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1986


    Format / Umfang :

    98 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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