title: [Injuries at day care centers and family day nurseries. A two-year case-load of a casualty department involving children under 7 years of age].
abstract: With the object of demonstrating whether injuries in children cared for outside their homes differ from injuries in children as a whole, the authors registered a material of children in the age group 0-6 years from a casualty department. Ninety injuries which had occurred during care outside the home were compared with the remaining 782 injuries. An enormous increase in the proportion of injuries occurring in day care centres and in family day nurseries was observed in contrast to the findings in previous investigations. This can be explained by the increasing number of children cared for outside their homes. 1.7 times as many injuries as were registered were anticipated and it is concluded that care outside the home did not present increased risk for injuries in the children involved. Injuries were most frequent among four-year-olds. Injuries sustained by falls or jumping to lower levels were relatively frequent while injuries caused by crushing, biting, cutting or stabbing were relatively rare and burns were not registered at all.
authors.affiliation: Skive Sygehus, kirurgisk afdeling.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Balslev
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Møller
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Rasmussen
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002656:Child Day Care Centers; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003718:Denmark / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009724:Nurseries, Infant; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology*
vernacular_title: Skader i daginstitutioner og hos dagplejemødre. To års skadestuemateriale for børn under 7 år.