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Injury Ambulance Attendances Among Child Visitors to Queensland, Australia: A Descriptive Study, 2009–2018
Safety · Added 13 October 2026

Descriptive study of 3,802 Queensland Ambulance Service attendances for injuries in child visitors aged ≤15 (2009–18) found interstate visitors accounted for 85.8% of cases, with falls and transport incidents the leading mechanisms and burns third in 0–4-year-olds.

Study type

Cohort

Design

Retrospective descriptive geospatial analysis of ambulance records

Participants

3,802 ambulance attendances, non-Queensland residents ≤15 years, 2009–2018

Main finding

Interstate visitors 85.8% of cases; falls and transport incidents leading mechanisms; burns third-leading mechanism for interstate visitors aged 0–4; coastal locations most common

Caveat

Purely descriptive with a decade-old ending date (2018) — pick-up location used as a proxy for injury location

Bottom line

Context only

Learning goal

Understand how travel and unfamiliar environments shape paediatric injury patterns at tourist destinations.

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• Topic: Paediatrics
• Daily scan: 13 October 2026

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