Preventing injuries in public playgrounds through partnership between health services and local authority: community intervention study
- 12 June 1999
- Vol. 318 (7198) , 1595
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.318.7198.1595
Abstract
Children injured in public playgrounds in Cardiff were identified from the accident and emergency department and linked to the playground, equipment, and surface. We estimated exposure of children to injuries from the numbers of children recorded to be playing in individual playgrounds by inspectors visiting them at random as part of their work.3 From this information we calculated injury rates per observed child.Keywords
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