Publications by authors named "C DiScala"
Objectives: To explore whether an intervention during mandatory schooling can lead to age-specific changes in water safety knowledge and attitudes.
Methods: Age-specific questionnaires were distributed to 202 kindergarten and grade one pupils, 220 elementary school pupils and 337 pupils attending the first three high school grades in Greater Athens. The information was used to design an educational package that was subsequently presented to pupils of the same grades and similar socio-demographic profiles attending different schools in the same area.
Objective: To identify patient and injury characteristics associated with suspected child abuse in the setting of blunt abdominal trauma.
Patients: We extracted from the National Pediatric Trauma Registry phases 2 and 3 (October 1995 to April 2001; N = 106,135) all cases of blunt abdominal injury, excluding motor vehicle injuries, in patients aged 0 to 4 years.
Main Outcome Measures: Independent variables included age, mortality, nutritional status, and injury type.
Background: Identification of children after traumatic brain injury (TBI) likely to have functional deficits at trauma center discharge will facilitate care.
Methods: Two logistic regression models were derived from data on 4,439 children after TBI 7 to 14 years old enrolled in the National Pediatric Trauma Registry between 1994 and 2001 to predict physical and cognitive disabilities.
Results: Children with open or multiple fractures or closed fractures or injured by motor vehicles were 8.
Though nonoperative management of stable children with blunt solid organ injury has been shown to be effective, we hypothesize that hepatic injuries represent a higher mortality risk than splenic injuries and that combination hepatosplenic injury is a marker of even greater mortality potential. A multi-institutional pediatric trauma registry was queried for all children with blunt injuries to the liver (H) or spleen (S), excluding those with severe brain injury. Incidence and mortality of H, S, and all combinations of H/S were compared.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To compare outcomes by intent of nonfatal firearms-related injuries in a hospitalized population, newborn to 19 years of age, and estimate the national incidence of ensuing disability.
Methods: Descriptive statistics and comparative analysis using chi(2), odds ratio, and t test were applied to data from the National Pediatric Trauma Registry (NPTR) and the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission. Demographics, preinjury medical history, scene of injury, primary body part injured, severity of injury, utilization of resources, short-term and long-term disability, medical cause of disability, and disposition at discharge were studied.