For many years safety officials and public health authorities have discouraged use of the
word “accident” when it refers to injuries or the events that produce them. An accident is often …

Objectives. We evaluated the effect of North American public bicycle share programs (PBSPs),
which typically do not offer helmets with rentals, on the occurrence of bicycle-related head …

This Commentary addresses the ongoing disagreements between many safety advocates
who endorse traditional models of prevention and those who oppose them, arguing that safety …

This update of a 1975 case study of the service and research program of the University of
Rochester's department of pediatrics picks up 20 years later, examining demographic, …

Almost one in five British mothers is a lone mother. Their children have injury rates that are
twice those of children in two parent families. In this article the link between lone parenthood …

Objective. Alternative medicine (AM) is of growing interest to the general public. Although
several studies have been published concerning its use in adults, the use by children is less …

The need for a widely applicable definition of chronic conditions for research, policy, and
program development has led to an extensive review of the development of such definitions, …

Despite their common use parental diaries of infants' cry and fuss behaviour have not been
compared with objective methods of recording. To understand what is meant by the …

Objectives: To determine the range of accuracy of parent recall for many different events
when compared with pediatrician's records and to establish whether good recall is associated …

Objective To determine the effect of helmets on the risk of head and neck injuries in skiers
and snowboarders. Design Matched case-control and case crossover study. Setting 19 ski …