[Prevalence of use of mobile phones while driving in Italy: results of a multicentric observational study].

Objectives: to provide an overview of the use of mobile phone in Italy while driving in the years 2015-2017.

Design: road side observational study.

Setting And Participants: a sample of 145.

Prevalence of use of safety devices on motorized vehicles in Italy. A multicentric road side observational study.

Objectives: to give an overview of the use of safety devices in motorized vehicles in Italy in the years 2015-2017.

Design: road side observational study.

Setting And Participants: a sample of 232,283 road users in 28 cities across the Italian territory with a resident population of more than 10 million inhabitants (17% of the Italian population) was considered.

Qualitative analysis of emergency department reports applied to a pilot project for the prevention of pediatric burns.

Accidents and burns are a major problem in Italy and in industrialized countries, due to the consequences they have on health, especially in children aged 0-4 years. In Italy, about 400 people die each year from burns, with over 70% of these occurring in the home. In the European Union, burns are one of the top five causes of death from accidents, accounting for 3% of all deaths from accidents and violence in those age groups.

Incidence estimates of hand and upper extremity injuries in Italy.

Objective: The purpose of this investigation is to estimate the incidence rates of upper extremity injuries and to give an overview of the most frequent diagnoses.

Materials And Methods: Two population databases were queried for all injuries in the upper extremities, the SINIACA-IDB (S-IDB: Emergency Department Injury Database in Italy) and the Hospital Discharge Register (HDR). The diagnoses codes of hand trauma were selected from both databases in order to estimate the national incidence rate.

Monitoring caustic injuries from emergency department databases using automatic keyword recognition software.

In Italy the European Union Injury Database reports the involvement of chemical products in 0.9% of home and leisure accidents. The Emergency Department registry on domestic accidents in Italy and the Poison Control Centres record that 90% of cases of exposure to toxic substances occur in the home.