Navigating child product safety: Perspectives from experts on international challenges and priorities in regulation and research.

Objective: To elicit and summarise collective expert opinion on contemporary child product safety risks, challenges and priorities.

Methods: An online survey targeted international experts from a cross-section of product safety fields.

Results: Fifty-five experts participated, representing 1,137 years of product safety experience, from a broad range of fields including industry risk management, product assessment and testing, policy and regulation, research, paediatric medicine, advocacy and product liability.

External causes of emergency department presentations: A missing piece to understanding unintentional childhood injury in Australia.

Objective: To identify external causes of unintentional childhood injury presenting to Australian EDs.

Methods: Six major paediatric hospitals in four Australian states supplied de-identified ED data for 2011-2017 on age, sex, attendance time/date, presenting problem, injury diagnosis, triage category and mode of separation. Three hospitals supplied data on external cause and intent of injury.

A Public Health Review into Two Decades of Domestic Trampoline Injuries in Children within Queensland, Australia.

Trampolining as an activity brings enjoyment and many health benefits, but at the same time it carries an injury risk. Most domestic trampoline users are children who are developing in skill, cognition, risk perception, physical strength and resilience to injury. Several common patterns of child trampoline injuries have been identified and countermeasures outlined in standards have been taken to reduce higher risk injury mechanisms, such as entrapment and falls from the trampoline through design, product and point of sale labelling.

Bandaids are not the fix: Examining the patterns of injury-related emergency department presentations in Australian children.

Objective: To provide an epidemiological understanding of the types of injuries treated in ED in Australian children, describe the impact of these injuries in volume and severity, and assess the patterns by demographic and temporal factors.

Methods: ED data from six major paediatric hospitals in four Australian states over the period 2011-2017 were analysed to identify childhood injury patterns by nature of injury and body region, as well as sex, age group and temporal factors.

Results: A total of 486 762 ED presentations for injury in children aged 0-14 years were analysed.

Application of a Machine Learning-Based Decision Support Tool to Improve an Injury Surveillance System Workflow.

Background: Emergency department (ED)-based injury surveillance systems across many countries face resourcing challenges related to manual validation and coding of data.

Objective: This study describes the evaluation of a machine learning (ML)-based decision support tool (DST) to assist injury surveillance departments in the validation, coding, and use of their data, comparing outcomes in coding time, and accuracy pre- and postimplementations.

Methods: Manually coded injury surveillance data have been used to develop, train, and iteratively refine a ML-based classifier to enable semiautomated coding of injury narrative data.

Monitoring Injuries Associated with Mandated Children's Products in Australia: What Can the Data Tell Us?

Mandatory standard regulation is used within Australia to ensure the safety of consumer products, preventing product-related injury. Standard regulation is particularly important for products designed for use by children, who are highly vulnerable to sustaining product-related injuries due to their small size and inability to identify product hazards. This project aims to investigate how effectively information regarding product-related injuries is able to be captured within Australian health and coronial data.

Value of emergency department triage data to describe and understand patterns and mechanisms of cycling injuries.

Objective: To characterise patients presenting to EDs for a bicycle-related injury, identify contributing factors to the injuries and describe the data gaps.

Methods: A retrospective study of bicycle-related injury presentations over the 5 year period 2010-2014 to two major metropolitan EDs. Data collected from the emergency presentation database consisted of patient demographics, presenting complaint, discharge diagnosis and details about the circumstances and mechanism of the accident.

Is population flow an unintended consequence of alcohol management plans?

Aims And Objectives: The aim of this study was to gauge whether, and to what extent, population flow occurred as a result of the implementation of alcohol management plans in Indigenous communities.

Background: Alcohol management plans involving carriage limits and dry places were introduced into 15 Queensland Indigenous communities between 2002-2004. Controls on alcohol availability were further tightened between 2008-2010, seeing the closure of eight mainly remote community taverns/canteens.

The Extent of Consumer Product Involvement in Paediatric Injuries.

A challenge in utilising health sector injury data for Product Safety purposes is that clinically coded data have limited ability to inform regulators about product involvement in injury events, given data entry is bound by a predefined set of codes. Text narratives collected in emergency departments can potentially address this limitation by providing relevant product information with additional accompanying context. This study aims to identify and quantify consumer product involvement in paediatric injuries recorded in emergency department-based injury surveillance data.