1. A retrospective registry analysis of the transport‐related health burden of wheeled recreational devices in Queensland, Australia
- Author
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Mark J. King, Oscar Oviedo-Trespalacios, and J.E. Rod
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Descriptive statistics ,business.industry ,Public health ,Australia ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Injury surveillance ,Health outcomes ,Public space ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Relative risk ,Emergency medicine ,Hospital admission ,medicine ,Craniocerebral Trauma ,Humans ,Queensland ,Registries ,business ,Recreation ,Retrospective Studies - Abstract
OBJECTIVE Evaluate injury patterns from wheeled recreational devices (WRD) in the public space and explore risk factors for hospital admission. METHOD A cross-sectional analysis of WRD injury prevalence and risk factors for hospital admissions was conducted using data from the Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit (QISU) database for 2007 to 2017. Descriptive statistics and a log-binomial regression model were used to calculate adjusted relative risk for hospital admission. RESULTS Most WRD injury in the public space was related to stand-alone WRD injury events such as falls, with few reported WRD users being hit by vehicles from 2007 to 2017. Stand-alone WRD injury events had a higher independent risk of hospital admissions when injured in the head/neck/face (RR 2.08, 95%CI 1.6 to 2.8, p
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- 2022