Playground slide-related injuries in preschool children: increased risk of lower extremity injuries when riding on laps

Table 5 Results from binary logistic regression analysis of playground slide-related injuries. Regression analysis was performed for the indicated outcomes. Outcome 1: injured child being < 3 years old as compared to 3–5 years of age. Outcome 2: Cases identified where the child was on a lap at the time of injury versus not identified as lap-related

	Likelihood of patient being < 36 months old^a		Likelihood patient identified as sitting on a lap when injured^b
Variable	aOR	95% CI	aOR	95% CI
Sex
Male	0.84	0.74–0.94	0.81	0.61–1.07
Female	1.0 (ref)	0.74–0.94	1.0 (ref)	0.61–1.07
Age
< 1 year	Not Applicable		11.5	4.6–28.9
1 year			5.43	2.57–11.5
2 years			2.62	1.19–5.78
3 years			1.84	0.77–4.38
4 years			0.89	0.31–2.50
5 years			1.0 (ref)
Race^c
White	1.10	0.98-1.24	1.50	1.09–2.07
Other	1.0 (ref)		1.0 (ref)
Location
Private Residence	2.57	2.15–3.08	3.02	0.87–10.5
Park/Public Area	2.25	1.94–2.62	10.5	3.31–33.6
School/Daycare	1.0 (ref)		1.0 (ref)
Diagnosis^d
Musculoskeletal	1.36	1.12-1.64	2.15	1.42–3.26
Brain	1.34	1.11–1.63	1.80	0.40–8.11
Skin	1.0 (ref)		1.0 (ref)
Body Part
Lower Extremities	7.71	5.04–11.8	4.10	1.24–13.5
Upper Extremities	1.37	0.89–2.10	0.29	0.08–1.10
Head/Neck/Face	2.62	1.74–3.96	0.20	0.044–0.95
Torso	1.0 (ref)		1.0 (ref)
Disposition
Stayed/Transferred	0.52	0.38–0.71	0.80	0.30–2.15
Left ED	1.0 (ref)	0.38–0.71	1.0 (ref)	0.30–2.15
Identified as on lap
Yes	3.99	2.69–5.93	Not Applicable
No	1.0 (ref)	2.69–5.93	Not Applicable

^aOutcome reference = Patients 3–5 years old; Number of cases in model = 5990; Cases not included in the model if they had missing data for one or more of the variables in the model
^bOutcome Reference = Injury not identified as occurring when patient was on another person’s lap; Number of cases in model = 5990; Cases not included in the model if they had missing data for one or more of the variables in the model
^cWhen the model compared children < 2 years old with children 2–5 years old, the younger age was more likely to be white: aOR, 1.26; 95% CI, 1.08–1.46
^dFor the model with age as outcome, only 9 cases were diagnosed with internal organ injury, a number too small to generate aOR and 95% CI

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