Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
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To examine trends in road death rates for child pedestrians, cyclists and car occupants. ⋯ More needs to be done to reduce the traffic injury death rates for child pedestrians and cyclists. This might encourage more walking and cycling and also has the potential to reduce social class gradients in injury mortality.
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To use routine data to identify patients at high risk of future emergency hospital admissions. ⋯ Routine hospital episode statistics can be used to identify patients who are at high risk of suffering future multiple emergency hospital admissions. The potential cost savings in preventing a proportion of these subsequent admissions need to be compared with the costs of case management of these patients.