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The hidden menace of non‐equine horses
Author(s) -
Craven John A,
Schutz Jacquie K
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb04122.x
Subject(s) - audit , horse , harm , emergency department , medicine , medical emergency , emergency medicine , political science , business , nursing , biology , law , paleontology , accounting
An emergency department audit of horse‐related injury presentations alerted researchers to a hitherto uninvestigated source of childhood harm: non‐equine horses. A search for the term “horse” in the database of the South Australian Injury Surveillance and Control Unit was performed for presentations of horse‐related injuries to a paediatric emergency department of an Australian tertiary teaching hospital over a 5‐year period. After all equine‐related episodes were extracted, the remaining presentations were herded together and conclusions were jumped to. When legitimate science and research technique failed, poetic licence was prevailed upon.