Management of severely injured children in road accidents in France: impact of the acute care organization on the outcome.

Objective: To examine the impact of acute care management on outcome in children severely injured in road accidents.

Design And Setting: Prospective follow-up study conducted in 12 French pediatric intensive care units over a 24-month period.

Patients: Excluding those in refractory shock or in brain death at admission, a total of 125 children aged <17 years admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit with severe trauma (Injury Severity Score > or =16) were included.

Working conditions in call-centers, the impact on employee health: a transversal study. Part II.

Purpose: The present study sought to assess the impact of telephone call center employees' working conditions on health by identifying at-risk employment situations.

Methods: A transversal study was performed in companies followed by 47 occupational physicians taking part (working conditions have been previously described). A self-administered medical questionnaire was used to collect data on absence due to sick leave, hearing and visual problems, musculoskeletal disorders, psychotropic drug use, etc.

Call-handlers' working conditions and their subjective experience of work: a transversal study.

Objectives: The present study sought to describe call-center working conditions and call-handlers' subjective experience of their work.

Methods: A transversal study was performed in companies followed by the 47 occupational physicians taking part. A dedicated questionnaire included one part on working conditions (work-station organization, task types, work schedules, and controls) and another on the perception of working conditions.

Severe outcome of children following trauma resulting from road accidents.

Objective: The aim of the study was to determine the risk factors of a severe outcome for children severely injured [killed or with an Injury Severity Score (ISS)>or=16] in a road accident.

Materials And Methods: Casualties that occurred between 1996 and 2001 which involved children under 14 years of age were assessed in a population-based study based on data included in a French road trauma Registry. A severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) was defined as a head injury with an Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) severity score>or=3.

Incidence and risk factors of severe traumatic brain injury resulting from road accidents: a population-based study.

A population-based study was carried out in 1996-2001 to provide the incidence and to identify the risk factors of severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) resulting from a road accident. The severe TBI was defined as an injury to the brain or the skull, excluding scalp injuries, with an abbreviated injury scale (AIS) severity score greater than 2. The severe TBI of 1238 patients were described.