title: Hospital admissions following childhood accidents.
abstract: This study comprises 260 children aged less than or equal to 13 yr hospitalized following accidents during a 9-mo period for a total of 923 hospital days. The ratio of boys to girls was 1.8:1. There were 21 road accidents and 104 accidents in the home; 75.4% of the accidents took place after school hours. Half of the admissions were for head trauma; 96 injuries were serious; and 78 patients required general anesthesia. In 67 families, there had been at least one previous childhood accident requiring hospitalization of the cohort child or sibling; factors in this group may have been the child's temperament or tension in the home.
mesh_terms: D000061:Accidents, Home; D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000209:etiology; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007557:Israel; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D010343:Patient Admission; D010551:Personality; D012737:Sex Factors