{"id":2957,"date":"2012-01-09T15:38:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T13:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal-ene.gr\/?p=2957"},"modified":"2026-11-03T16:38:27","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T14:38:27","slug":"accidents-in-hospitalised-children-a-retrospective-study-in-a-paediatric-research-hospital-in-northern-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/accidents-in-hospitalised-children-a-retrospective-study-in-a-paediatric-research-hospital-in-northern-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Accidents in Hospitalised Children: A Retrospective Study in a Paediatric Research Hospital in Northern Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ABSTRACT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Aim:<\/strong> The aim of our study was to assess accidents in hospitalised children and define the main features of paediatric patients at risk for accidents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Methods:<\/strong> Data were collected using the medical reports of hospitalised children who experienced accidents provided by the Accident &amp; Emergency Department (A&amp;E) of the \u201cG. Gaslini\u201d Research Hospital in Genoa between 2003 and 2006 (in those years, the institutional procedure for hospitalized children who accidentally hurt themselves was to refer them to the A&amp;E).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Results:<\/strong> Accidents involving hospitalised children, were estimated to be 814 out of the total number of admissions between 2003 and 2006 (1.1%). The rate of accidents in children was highest between 1.00 pm and 8.00 pm. (338 events, equal to 41.5%). This phenomenon mostly involved children between 1 and 3 years of age (338 cases, equal to 41.5%). Falling out of bed was found to be the most frequent accident (209 cases, equal to 25.7%).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Conclusions:<\/strong> We found elements that were useful for the risk assessment and management of accidental injuries in hospitalized children. Such elements allowed our research team to design a project that allowed to improve both the quality of care and patient safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABSTRACT Aim: The aim of our study was to assess accidents in hospitalised children and define the main features of paediatric patients at risk for accidents.<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[594],"tags":[436],"eidos-arthrou":[1807],"keyword":[],"language":[1841],"class_list":["post-2957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iss_3_4","tag-anna-maria-urbano","eidos-arthrou-erevnitika-arthra","language-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2957"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9435,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957\/revisions\/9435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2957"},{"taxonomy":"eidos-arthrou","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eidos-arthrou?post=2957"},{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=2957"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=2957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}