title: The hidden menace of non-equine horses.
abstract: An emergency department audit of horse-related injury presentations alerted researchers to a hitherto uninvestigated source of childhood harm: non-equine horses. A search for the term "horse" in the database of the South Australian Injury Surveillance and Control Unit was performed for presentations of horse-related injuries to a paediatric emergency department of an Australian tertiary teaching hospital over a 5-year period. After all equine-related episodes were extracted, the remaining presentations were herded together and conclusions were jumped to. When legitimate science and research technique failed, poetic licence was prevailed upon.
authors.affiliation: Emergency Department, Canberra Hospital, Canberra, ACT, Australia. jcraven@ausdoctors.net
authors.forename: John A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Craven
authors.forename: Jacquie K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Schutz
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D010988:Play and Playthings / Q000293:injuries*; D014925:Wit and Humor as Topic