Table A

Table B
 

Table A  Age and sex of the children audited, before and after the flowchart was introduced

Age (years)	Before intervention			After intervention
	Male	Female		Male	Female
<1	52	36		55	31
1	134	109		123	89
2	116	94		119	102
3	107	84		111	78
4	99	76		83	75
5	57	36		85	49
Total	565	435		576	424

 

Table B Types of injury in children audited before and after flowchart was introduced

Injury	Before intervention	After intervention
Skull fracture	2	5
All other closed fractures	108	99
Open fractures	0	1
Dislocation	1	0
Amputation	0	1
Pulled elbow	51	41
Abrasion	9	7
Bite	12	11
Sting	1	0
Bruise	59	93
Burn	21	29
Scald	38	30
Near drowning	1	1
Electric shock	0	2
Foreign body	38	23
Head injury	205	197
Ingestion	44	55
Laceration	303	293
Sprain	15	27
Dental injury	0	2
Other soft tissue injury	92	83
Total	1000	1000

 

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