HOSPITAL BASED CHILD PASSENGER SAFETY ACTIVITIES: A STATEWIDE SURVEY

A statewide survey was conducted of all hospitals in Illinois with a newborn service to determine what methods, if any, were being used to encourage child restraint use for newborns upon discharge. Types of activities were graded as follows: none, passive, active, and aggressive. Eighty-two percent of hospitals in Illinois have some program to encourage child passenger safety; 18% have no activities. However, only 8% of hospitals have a program which could be characterized as aggressive. No consistent pattern of methods emerged. As a result of this survey, a protocol has been developed which will be sent to Illinois hospitals detailing and encouraging an aggressive hospital based child passenger safety program.

• Corporate Authors:

  American Association for Automotive Medicine

  P.O. Box 222
  Morton Grove, IL  United States  60053
• Authors:
  • Gardner, H G
  • SHELDON, S H
• Publication Date: 1984-1

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 35-36
• Serial:
  • AAAM Quarterly Journal
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Assoc for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Child restraint systems; Children; Data collection; Hospitals; Restraint systems; Safety programs; Surveys
• Geographic Terms: Illinois
• Old TRIS Terms: Passenger restraints
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00391378
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-037 132
• Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Dec 30 1984 12:00AM