Year: 2021
Articles in SafetyLit: 102

30-day mortality in patients after hip fracture surgery: a comparison of the Charlson Comorbidity Index score and ASA score used in two prediction models

A call for collective learning from mass casualty incidents

A multicenter retrospective cohort study of blunt traumatic injury to the common or internal carotid arteries

A national trauma data bank analysis of large animal-related injuries

A retrospective observational cohort study: epidemiology and outcomes of pediatric unintentional falls in US emergency departments

A retrospective study of spine injuries in electric bicycles related collisions

Access to specialist hospital care and injury survivability: identifying opportunities through an observational study of prehospital trauma fatalities

Acute musculoskeletal sports injuries in school age children in Britain

An evaluation of the association between fault attribution and healthcare costs and trajectories in the first three years after transport injury

An Impact study of highway design on casualty and non-casualty traffic accidents

Associations of on-arrival vital signs with 24-hour in-hospital mortality in adult trauma patients admitted to four public university hospitals in urban India: a prospective multi-centre cohort study

Building consensus on inpatient discharge pathway components in the management of blunt thoracic injuries: an e-Delphi study amongst an international professional expert panel

Can serum biomarkers be used to rule out significant intracranial pathology in emergency department patients with mild traumatic brain injury? A systemic review & meta-analysis

Characteristic and outcomes of human and animal bites in Malawi

Characteristics and outcomes following motorized and non-motorized vehicular trauma in a resource-limited setting

Characteristics of open eye injuries in the Beirut Port explosion

Characteristics, management and outcomes of patients with severe traumatic brain injury in Victoria, Australia compared to United Kingdom and Europe: a comparison between two harmonised prospective cohort studies

Comparing the accuracy of ICD-based severity estimates to trauma registry-based injury severity estimates for predicting mortality outcomes

Comparison of childhood household injuries and risk factors between urban and rural communities in Ghana: a cluster-randomized, population-based, survey to inform injury prevention research and programming

COVID-19 and impact on trauma injuries. a Janus facing in opposite directions?

Crevasse accidents in the Swiss Alps: epidemiology and mortality of 405 victims of crevasse accidents from 2010 to 2020

Development and use of clinical vignettes to assess injury care quality in Northern Malawi

Distal femur fractures have a higher mortality rate compared to hip fractures among the elderly: are the insights from the National Trauma Data Bank conclusive?

Distal femur fractures have a higher mortality rate compared to hip fractures among the elderly: insights from the National Trauma Data Bank

Does operative treatment of geriatric pelvic ring injuries lead to a high risk of one-year mortality?

Dual Mobility hip replacement in hip fractures offer functional equivalence and a stability advantage - A case-controlled study

Efficacy of an infrared radiator for hypothermia prevention in a simulated setup of entrapped vehicle accident victims

Emergency medical services protocols for traumatic brain injury in the United States: a call for standardization

Epidemiology and risk factors for loss to follow-up following operatively treated femur ballistic fractures

Epidemiology of hand traumas during the COVID-19 confinement period

Epidemiology of long bone non-unions in Spain

Epidemiology of shoulder instability in Italy: a 14-years nationwide registry study

Expectant management in delayed presentation of war casualties with penetrating abdominal trauma

External validation of international classification of injury severity score to predict mortality in a Greek adult trauma population

External validation of the Dutch prediction model for prehospital triage of trauma patients in South West region of England, United Kingdom

Financial risk of road traffic trauma care in public and private hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional observational study

Fixation using alternative implants for the treatment of hip fractures (FAITH-2): the exploratory health-related quality of life and patient-reported functional outcomes of a multi-centre 2 × 2 factorial randomized controlled pilot trial in young femoral neck fracture patients

Fracture location impacts opioid demand in upper extremity fracture surgery

Geographical mapping of road traffic injuries in Lilongwe, Malawi

Geographical risk of fatal and non-fatal injuries among adults in Norway

Global status of knowledge for the prevention and emergency management of traumatic dental injuries among non-dental healthcare professionals: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Head- and neck-related symptoms post-motor vehicle collision (MVC): separate entities or two-sides of the same coin?

Health care services and costs after hip fracture, comparing conventional versus standardised care: a retrospective study with 12-month follow-up

Household economic impact of road traffic injury versus routine emergencies in a low-income country

How prepared are Canadian trauma centres for mass casualty incidents?

ICD-10 codes do not accurately reflect ankle fracture injury patterns

Impact of a focused trauma course on retention of provider skills, knowledge and confidence at a regional hospital in the Dominican Republic

Implications of positive urine toxicology screening in trauma patients

Increasing incidence of pelvic and acetabular fractures. A nationwide study of 87,308 fractures over a 16-year period in Sweden

Injury scoring from ISS to machine learning - the rest of the story

Investigation of effective factors on traumatic amputations due to road traffic accidents

Is massive hemothorax still an absolute indication for operation in blunt trauma?

Letter to Editor regarding "Development of the Italian fractures registry (RIFra): a call for action to improve quality and safety"

Measuring socioeconomic outcomes in trauma patients up to one year post-discharge: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Mortality of distal femur fractures in the elderly

Most orthopaedic trauma patients are using the internet, but do you know where they're going?

Musculoskeletal injuries and management of victims from collapsed buildings in the 2016 Taiwan earthquake: experiences in a tertiary medical center

National trends in the treatment of femur fractures in the preschool population: age and geography play a role

Opioids and injury deaths: a population-based analysis of the United States from 2006 to 2017

Outcomes after hip fractures sustained in hospital: a propensity-score matched cohort study

Outcomes after prehospital traumatic cardiac arrest in the Netherlands: a retrospective cohort study

Outcomes following traumatic inhalational airway injury - predictors of mortality and effect of procedural intervention

Paediatric major trauma in the setting of the Irish trauma network

Pathways and factors that influence time to definitive trauma care for injured children in New South Wales, Australia

Patterns and predictors of personal responsibility attributions after major trauma

Pediatric casualties in contemporary armed conflict: a systematic review to inform standardized reporting

Planning for UK terror attacks: analysis of blast and ballistic injuries

Pre-existing psychiatric disorder is related to lower mortality from road traffic accident: a Japanese nationwide retrospective cohort study

Pre-injury use of antiplatelet and anticoagulations therapy are associated with increased mortality in a cohort of 1038 hip fracture patients

Predicting mortality for critically ill burns patients, using the Abbreviated Burn Severity Index and Simplified Acute Physiology Score 3

Predictors of subsequent injury for Māori in New Zealand

Predictors of thoracic and lumbar spine injuries in patients with TBI: a nationwide analysis

Predictors of traumatic brain injury morbidity and mortality: examination of data from the National Trauma Data Bank: Predictors of TBI morbidity & mortality

Prehospital triage of trauma patients before and after implementation of a regional triage guideline

Preventable death in trauma: a systematic review on definition and classification

Preventable deaths following road traffic collisions in Botswana: a retrospective review

Quality of life, walking ability and change of living situation after trochanteric femur fracture in geriatric patients-comparison between sliding hip screw and cephalomedullary nails from the registry for geriatric trauma

Quantifying injury severity for traumatic brain injury with routinely collected health data

Response to letter to the editor "Distal femur fractures have a higher mortality rate compared to hip fractures among the elderly: insights from the National Trauma Data Bank?"

Response to Letter to the editor from Carmo et al. re Pathways and factors that influence time to definitive trauma care for injured children in New South Wales, Australia

Risk of alcohol withdrawal syndrome in hospitalized trauma patients: a national data analysis

Should the management approach to the anterior abdominal stab wound be different in patients with self-inflicted abdominal injury?

Study of clinical pattern of limb loss in electrical burn injuries

The association of hand and wrist injuries with other injuries in multiple trauma patients. A retrospective study in a UK Major Trauma Centre

The Bolivian trauma patient's experience: a qualitative needs assessment

The burden of injuries in Mexico: secondary data analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study, 1990 to 2019

The decline of hip fracture incidence rates over a 10-year period: a single centre experience

The economic burden of open tibia fractures: a systematic review

The effect of COVID-19 on a major trauma network. An analysis of mechanism of injury pattern, referral load and operative case-mix

The financial burden of rib fractures: national estimates 2007 to 2016

The most stable pinning configurations in transverse supracondylar humerus fracture fixation in children: a novel three-dimensional finite element analysis of a pediatric bone model

The Prevent Alcohol and Risk-related Trauma in Youth (P.A.R.T.Y.) Program Questionnaire Validation Study (PQVS)

The relationship between work and mental health outcomes in Black men after serious injury

The treble whammy: road crashes, out of pocket expenses and impoverishment

Thoracic injuries in pediatric polytraumatized patients: epidemiology, treatment and outcome

Trajectory of self-rated health after combat-related injury

Trauma risk score matching for observational studies in orthopedic trauma

Trends in head injury associated mortality in Malawi

Understanding the barriers and facilitators to trauma registry development in resource-constrained settings: a survey of trauma registry stewards and researchers

Use of alcohol and illicit drugs by trauma patients in Sao Paulo, Brazil

War-related ocular injuries in Damascus during the Syrian Crisis

What works? Interventions to reduce readmission after hip fracture: a rapid review of systematic reviews