Archives of disease in childhood
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
Randomised controlled trial assessing the impact of increasing information to health visitors about children's injuries.
To assess the effect on health visitor action of providing community health visitors with information on all injury attendances in children under 5 attending an accident and emergency (A&E) department and of providing additional information about each injury. ⋯ A selective policy for notifying community health visitors of child injury attendances at A&E results in a greater proportion of attendances in which the health visitor takes action and in a greater number of actions per attendance being taken. The utility of notifying all injury attendances is questionable, as many do not result in any action.