Catchpoole Jesani, Walker Sue, Vallmuur Kirsten
Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety-Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland 4059, Australia.
National Centre for Health Information Research & Training, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland 4059, Australia.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2016 Jul 7;13(7):654. doi: 10.3390/ijerph13070654.
A challenge in utilising health sector injury data for Product Safety purposes is that clinically coded data have limited ability to inform regulators about product involvement in injury events, given data entry is bound by a predefined set of codes. Text narratives collected in emergency departments can potentially address this limitation by providing relevant product information with additional accompanying context. This study aims to identify and quantify consumer product involvement in paediatric injuries recorded in emergency department-based injury surveillance data. A total of 7743 paediatric injuries were randomly selected from Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit database and associated text narratives were manually reviewed to determine product involvement in the injury event. A Product Involvement Factor classification system was used to categorise these injury cases. Overall, 44% of all reviewed cases were associated with consumer products, with proximity factor (25%) being identified as the most common involvement of a product in an injury event. Only 6% were established as being directly due to the product. The study highlights the importance of utilising injury data to inform product safety initiatives where text narratives can be used to identify the type and involvement of products in injury cases.
将卫生部门的伤害数据用于产品安全目的面临的一个挑战是，临床编码数据告知监管机构产品与伤害事件关联情况的能力有限，因为数据录入受一组预定义代码的限制。急诊科收集的文本叙述有可能通过提供相关产品信息及额外的相关背景来解决这一限制。本研究旨在识别并量化在基于急诊科的伤害监测数据中记录的儿科伤害事件中消费品的涉入情况。从昆士兰伤害监测单位数据库中随机选取了7743例儿科伤害事件，并对相关文本叙述进行人工审核，以确定产品在伤害事件中的涉入情况。使用产品涉入因素分类系统对这些伤害案例进行分类。总体而言，所有审核案例中有44%与消费品有关，其中接近因素（25%）被确定为产品在伤害事件中最常见的涉入方式。只有6%被确定为直接由产品导致。该研究强调了利用伤害数据为产品安全举措提供信息的重要性，其中文本叙述可用于识别产品在伤害案例中的类型和涉入情况。
