Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Aug 2020
Understanding childhood injuries in rural areas: Using Rural Acute Hospital Data Register to address previous data deficiencies.
The state of childhood injury in rural areas of Victoria is poorly understood. Currently only data on those children transferred from smaller hospital settings to larger settings appear in existing government datasets, significantly underestimating the characteristics of injury. ⋯ The Rural Acute Hospital Data Register database captures the presentations at low-resource sites and highlights as much as a 35% deficit in the data that is currently available to inform injury prevention and safety initiatives in Victoria.
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Emerg Med Australas · Aug 2020
Predictive values of haematuria and hydronephrosis in suspected renal colic: An emergency department retrospective audit.
To determine the predictive values of haematuria and hydronephrosis in suspected renal colic. ⋯ This audit suggests that a diagnostic strategy relying on the absence of haematuria or hydronephrosis, or both, to rule out ureteric calculi may result in a small number of stones being missed.