| Methods |
Case‐control design, population based. Analyses restricted to immersions with unintentional access to pool. |
| Participants |
All children 0‐13 years old with immersion injury in Brisbane (n = 139) from 1984 to 1989.
Cases: Children with immersion injury resulting from unintentional access to domestic pools.
Controls: random sample of households with pools. |
| Interventions |
Pool fencing stratified by type (isolation, three‐sided, none) because all children gaining unintentional access to pool from three‐sided fencing did so through the house door, both no fencing and three‐sided fencing comprise the unfenced category). |
| Outcomes |
Risk of drowning or near drowning in fenced pools compared to unfenced pools. |
| Notes |
Contains data for three pool types; in ground, above ground and spas. Eighty‐three percent of all immersions occurred in children less than three years of age. |
