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Associations between implementation of Project Lazarus and opioid analgesic dispensing and buprenorphine utilization in North Carolina, 2009–2014

Project Lazarus (PL) is a seven-strategy, community-coalition-based intervention designed to reduce opioid overdose and dependence. The seven strategies include: community education, provider education, hospit...

Authors: Apostolos A. Alexandridis, Nabarun Dasgupta, Agnieszka D. McCort, Christopher L. Ringwalt, Wayne D. Rosamond, Paul R. Chelminski and Stephen W. Marshall

A cohort study to identify and evaluate concussion risk factors across multiple injury settings: findings from the CARE Consortium

Concussion, or mild traumatic brain injury, is a major public health concern affecting 42 million individuals globally each year. However, little is known regarding concussion risk factors across all concussio...

Authors: Kathryn L. Van Pelt, Dain Allred, Kenneth L. Cameron, Darren E. Campbell, Christopher J. D’Lauro, Xuming He, Megan N. Houston, Brian R. Johnson, Tim F. Kelly, Gerald McGinty, Sean Meehan, Patrick G. O’Donnell, Karen Y. Peck, Steven J. Svoboda, Paul Pasquina, Thomas McAllister…

Building the injury field in North America: the perspective of some of the pioneers

After the publication in 1985 of Injury in America and the establishment of an injury center at the Centers for Disease Control, there was a concerted attempt to create an “injury field.”

Authors: David Hemenway

Association between emergency department utilization and the risk of child maltreatment in young children

This study aims to assess the association between emergency department (ED) utilization and the risk of child maltreatment.

Authors: Xiaoxin Kuang, Yumiko Aratani and Guohua Li

The burden of hospitalized sports-related injuries in children: an Australian population-based study, 2005–2013

There is concern about recent increase and severity of sports-related injuries in children. Despite the benefits of sports participation, injuries may carry long-term health consequences. We aimed to evaluate ...

Authors: Francisco J. Schneuer, Jane C. Bell, Susan E. Adams, Julie Brown, Caroline Finch and Natasha Nassar

“Death is certain, the time is not”: mortality and survival in Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones is a popular television series known for its violent and graphic portrayal of the deaths of its characters. This study aimed to examine the mortality and survival of important characters in Game o...

Authors: Reidar P. Lystad and Benjamin T. Brown

Challenges in studying statewide pedestrian injuries and drug involvement

Increasing U.S. rates of pedestrian injuries could be attributable in part to changing policies and attitudes towards drugs and associated increases in use, yet drug use has not been investigated widely as a r...

Authors: Elizabeth D. Nesoff, Charles C. Branas and Silvia S. Martins

Factors associated with the likelihood of fall-related injury among people with lower limb loss

People with lower limb loss that live in the community fall at a rate that exceeds that of other vulnerable populations such as hospitalized elderly people. Past research in a small single state study has iden...

Authors: Stanford Chihuri and Christopher Kevin Wong

Incidence of emergency department presentations for traumatic brain injury in Indigenous and non-Indigenous residents aged 15–64 over the 9-year period 2007–2015 in North Queensland, Australia

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Previous studies have shown that males have a higher incidence than females, and Indigenous populations have a higher rate than non-Indi...

Authors: Adrian Esterman, Fintan Thompson, Michelle Fitts, John Gilroy, Jennifer Fleming, Paul Maruff, Alan Clough and India Bohanna

Unintentional injuries among children aged 1–5 years: understanding the burden, risk factors and severity in urban slums of southern India

Globally, 5.82 million deaths occurred among children under the age of five years in 2015 and injury specific mortality rate was 73 per 100,000 population. In India, injury specific mortality rate is around 2....

Authors: Srujan Lam Sharma, Samarasimha Reddy N, Karthikeyan Ramanujam, Mats Steffi Jennifer, Annai Gunasekaran, Anuradha Rose, Sushil Mathew John, Anuradha Bose and Venkata Raghava Mohan

Epidemiology of alcohol-related unintentional drowning: is post-mortem ethanol production a real challenge?

Post-mortem (PM) ethanol production may hamper the interpretation of blood alcohol concentration (BAC) in victims of drowning. Different exclusion criteria (e.g. cases with low BAC or with protracted interval ...

Authors: Tuulia Pajunen, Erkki Vuori and Philippe Lunetta

The epidemiology of firearm injuries managed in US emergency departments

Firearm-related injuries cause significant morbidity and mortality in the United States (US), consuming resources and fueling political and public health discourse. Most analyses of firearm injuries are based ...

Authors: Jacob B. Avraham, Spiros G. Frangos and Charles J. DiMaggio

Incidence and costs of injuries to children and adults in the United States

Injuries are a leading cause of death and acquired disability, and result in significant medical spending. Prior estimates of injury-related cost have been limited by older data, for certain population, or spe...

Authors: Mark R. Zonfrillo, Rebecca S. Spicer, Bruce A. Lawrence and Ted R. Miller

Interrupted time series design to evaluate the effect of the ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM coding transition on injury hospitalization trends

Implementation of the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) in the U.S. on October 1, 2015 was a significant policy change with the potential to affect est...

Authors: Svetla Slavova, Julia F. Costich, Huong Luu, Judith Fields, Barbara A. Gabella, Sergey Tarima and Terry L. Bunn

A longitudinal study of work-related injuries: comparisons of health and work-related consequences between injured and uninjured aging United States adults

Age may affect one’s susceptibility to the myriad physical hazards that may pose risks for work-related injuries. Aging workers are not only at risk for work-related injuries but, also, at even higher risk for...

Authors: Navneet Kaur Baidwan, Susan G. Gerberich, Hyun Kim, Andrew D. Ryan, Timothy R. Church and Benjamin Capistrant

Teen driver system modeling: a tool for policy analysis

Motor vehicle crashes remain the leading cause of teen deaths in spite of preventive efforts. Prevention strategies could be advanced through new analytic approaches that allow us to better conceptualize the c...

Authors: Celestin Missikpode, Corinne Peek-Asa, Daniel V. McGehee, James Torner, Wayne Wakeland and Robert Wallace

Epidemiologic comparison of ankle injuries presenting to US emergency departments versus high school and collegiate athletic training settings

Ankle sprains account for a large proportion of injuries presenting to both United States (US) emergency departments (EDs) as well as high school (HS) and collegiate school athletic training settings. The epid...

Authors: Alexandria J. Wiersma, Lina Brou, Sarah K. Fields, R. Dawn Comstock and Zachary Y. Kerr

The effect of transitioning to ICD-10-CM on acute injury surveillance of active duty service members

Acute injuries are a burden on the Military Health System and degrade service members’ ability to train and deploy. Long-term injuries contribute to early attrition and increase disability costs. To properly q...

Authors: Matthew C. Inscore, Katherine R. Gonzales, Christopher P. Rennix and Bruce H. Jones

The effectiveness of introducing detection cameras on compliance with mobile phone and seatbelt laws: a before-after study among drivers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Because Saudi Arabia (SA) has struggled with the burden of Road Traffic Injuries (RTIs) for decades, a new automated citations system was implemented in 2018 to improve compliance with seatbelt and mobile phon...

Authors: Suliman Alghnam, Jawaher Towhari, Mohamed Alkelya, Abdulaziz Binahmad and Teresa Maria Bell

Temporal and regional trends of choking injuries in children in Italy, 2001–2013

Choking injuries in children are a significant public health problem. The present study was aimed at examining the epidemiologic patterns of choking injuries in children using Italian official data from hospit...

Authors: Giulia Lorenzoni, Danila Azzolina, Nicola Soriani, Marco Galadini, Flavia Carle and Dario Gregori

Injuries in girls’ soccer and basketball: a comparison of high schools with and without athletic trainers

Sports injuries impose physical and economic burdens on high school athletes, yet only 37% of high schools have access to a fulltime certified athletic trainer (AT). Although intuitively there are multiple ben...

Authors: Lauren A. Pierpoint, Cynthia R. LaBella, Christy L. Collins, Sarah K. Fields and R. Dawn Comstock

Using opinion leaders to address intervention gaps in concussion prevention in youth sports: key concepts and foundational theory

Behavioral interventions to increase disclosure and proper management of concussion in youth sports have unrealized potential when it comes to preventing concussion. Interventions have focused on changing indi...

Authors: Zachary Y. Kerr, Johna K. Register-Mihalik, Juliet Haarbauer-Krupa, Emily Kroshus, Vivian Go, Paula Gildner, K. Hunter Byrd and Stephen W. Marshall

Workers compensation-reported injuries among security and law enforcement personnel in the private versus public sectors

Private and Public security and law enforcement (SLE) sectors perform multiple overlapping job duties.

Authors: W. S. Witt, T. L. Bunn and S. Slavova

Knee osteoarthritis in professional football is related to severe knee injury and knee surgery

As a consequence of severe knee injuries, knee osteoarthritis (OA) seems prevalent in retired professional footballers. However, some epidemiological data remain missing, for instance whether knee OA is also p...

Authors: Vincent Gouttebarge, Haruhito Aoki and Gino M. M. J. Kerkhoffs

Concussion knowledge, attitudes and reporting intention among adult competitive Muay Thai kickboxing athletes: a cross-sectional study

Muay Thai kickboxing is a full-contact combat sport with a high incidence of head trauma, yet little is known about these athletes’ concussion knowledge and attitudes. This study aims to describe and quantify ...

Authors: Reidar P. Lystad and Stephen J. Strotmeyer

Autonomous vehicles are cost-effective when used as taxis

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) will radically re-shape the health and well-being of people in the United States in good ways and bad. We set out to estimate a reasonable time-to-adoption using cost-effectivenessmod...

Authors: Isaac G. Freedman, Ellen Kim and Peter A. Muennig

Characteristics of sports and recreation-related emergency department visits among school-age children and youth in North Carolina, 2010–2014

Sports and recreational activities are an important cause of injury among children and youth, with sports-related traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) being of particular concern given the developing brain. This pa...

Authors: Katherine J. Harmon, Scott K. Proescholdbell, Johna Register-Mihalik, David B. Richardson, Anna E. Waller and Stephen W. Marshall

Awareness of Vision Zero among United States’ road safety professionals

Vision Zero is a strategy to eliminate all fatalities and serious injuries from road traffic crashes, while increasing safe and equitable mobility for all. In 2015, the United States’ Department of Transportat...

Authors: Kelly R. Evenson, Seth LaJeunesse and Stephen Heiny

Epidemiological patterns of traumatic musculoskeletal injuries and non-traumatic disorders in Japan Self-Defense Forces

The epidemiological patterns of musculoskeletal injuries or disorders in military personnel have not been well documented and a better understanding is required for proper preventative measures and treatment. ...

Authors: Masatoshi Amako, Yoshiyuki Yato, Yasuo Yoshihara, Hiroshi Arino, Hiroshi Sasao, Osamu Nemoto, Tomohito Imai, Atsushi Sugihara, Satoshi Tsukazaki, Yutaka Sakurai and Koichi Nemoto

Using matrix frame to present road traffic injury pattern

Although many epidemiological studies have presented road traffic injuries (RTIs) according to the victim’s mode of transport, very few have mentioned the mode of transport of the victim’s counterparts. We sou...

Authors: Chien-Hsing Wang, Wan-Hua Hsieh, Fu-Wen Liang and Tsung-Hsueh Lu

Efficacy of a proactive health and safety risk management system in the fire service

This study evaluated the efficacy of a fire department proactive risk management program aimed at reducing firefighter injuries and their associated costs.

Authors: Gerald S. Poplin, Stephanie Griffin, Keshia Pollack Porter, Joshua Mallett, Chengcheng Hu, Virginia Day-Nash and Jefferey L. Burgess

Cross sectional analysis of Chicago vs suburban Cook County suicide deaths among 10–24-year-olds in the Illinois violent death reporting system

In 2014, suicide was the second leading cause of death among 10- to 24-year-olds in the US. Studies note disparities in youth suicide based on sex, race/ethnicity, and urban vs rural settings. This study inves...

Authors: Ernika G. Quimby, Suzanne G. McLone, Maryann Mason and Karen Sheehan

A quality improvement program in pediatric practices to increase tailored injury prevention counseling and assess self-reported changes made by families

Many pediatric providers struggle to screen families for the majority of age-appropriate injury risks and educate them when appropriate. Standardized tools have helped physicians provide effective, more purpos...

Authors: Michael A. Gittelman, Adam C. Carle, Sarah Denny, Samantha Anzeljc and Melissa Wervey Arnold

Child abuse and neglect experts’ determination of when a child being left home alone constitutes child neglect

Only 14 states have laws or guidelines regarding the minimum age a child may be left home alone. These ages range from 6 to 14 years. Our objective was to identify factors that influence child neglect determin...

Authors: Charles A. Jennissen, Erin Evans, Resmiye Oral and Gerene Denning

Characterization of children hospitalized with traumatic brain injuries after building falls

Unintentional falls cause a substantial proportion of pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI), with building falls carrying particularly high risk for morbidity and mortality. The cohort of children sustaining ...

Authors: Kirsten V. Loftus, Tara Rhine, Shari L. Wade and Wendy J. Pomerantz

You can have your breastmilk and safe sleep too: a preliminary analysis of infant safe sleep data in a Midwestern home visiting program

Sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) accounted for approximately 3700 infant deaths in the US in 2015. SUID risk factors include prone sleeping, bed-sharing, soft bedding use, and maternal smoking. Infant saf...

Authors: Sheena Hussain, Gina S. Lowell, Douglas R. Roehler, Kyran P. Quinlan, S. Darius Tandon and Lesley Schwartz

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

The purpose of this study was to better understand the factors associated with playground slide-related injuries in preschool children and to test the hypothesis that riding on laps increases the likelihood of...

Authors: Charles A. Jennissen, Maggie Koos and Gerene Denning

Gun carrying among freshmen and sophomores in Chicago, New York City and Los Angeles public schools: the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 2007-2013

This study evaluated trends and risk factors over time for self-reported gun carrying among freshman and sophomore public school students in Chicago, New York City and Los Angeles, chosen as high profile citie...

Authors: Samaa Kemal, Karen Sheehan and Joe Feinglass

Twenty-two years of injury free

Authors: Lois K. Lee

Paternal perception of infant sleep risks and safety

Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) results in 3400 sleep-related deaths yearly in the United States, yet caregivers’ compliance with safe sleep recommendations remains less than optimal. Paternal caregiver’...

Authors: Heather M. Hirsch, Samantha H. Mullins, Beverly K. Miller and Mary E. Aitken

Is a driver’s license age waiver worth a teen’s life?

Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for teens 14–19 years of age, with younger teen drivers at higher risk than older teens. Graduated driver licensing has been proven to reduce teen driver-re...

Authors: Dawn M. Porter, Beverly K. Miller, Samantha H. Mullins, Mary E. Porter and Mary E. Aitken

Pediatric falls ages 0–4: understanding demographics, mechanisms, and injury severities

Pediatric unintentional falls are the leading cause of injury-related emergency visits for children < 5 years old. The purpose of this study was to identify population characteristics, injury mechanisms, and i...

Authors: Sofia Chaudhary, Janet Figueroa, Salah Shaikh, Elizabeth Williams Mays, Rana Bayakly, Mahwish Javed, Matthew Lee Smith, Tim P. Moran, Jonathan Rupp and Sharon Nieb

Open-access programs for injury categorization using ICD-9 or ICD-10

The article introduces Programs for Injury Categorization, using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and R statistical software (ICDPIC-R). Starting with ICD-8, methods have been described to ma...

Authors: David E. Clark, Adam W. Black, David H. Skavdahl and Lee D. Hallagan

Injury prevalence across sports: a descriptive analysis on a representative sample of the Danish population

Physical activity plays an important role in public health, owing to a range of health-related benefits that it provides. Sports-related injuries are known to be an important barrier to continued physical acti...

Authors: A. M. Bueno, M. Pilgaard, A. Hulme, P. Forsberg, D. Ramskov, C. Damsted and R. O. Nielsen

A randomized controlled trial to evaluate the Make Safe Happen® app—a mobile technology-based safety behavior change intervention for increasing parents’ safety knowledge and actions

Many unintentional injuries that occur in and around the home can be prevented through the use of safety equipment and by consistently following existing safety recommendations. Unfortunately, uptake of these ...

Authors: Lara B. McKenzie, Kristin J. Roberts, Roxanne Clark, Rebecca McAdams, Mahmoud Abdel-Rasoul, Elizabeth G. Klein, Sarah A. Keim, Orie Kristel, Alison Szymanski, Christopher G. Cotton and Wendy C. Shields

Electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) battery-related burns presenting to US emergency departments, 2016

Currently, an estimated 7.9 million US adults use electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS). Although published reports have identified fires and explosions related to use of ENDS since 2009, these reports d...

Authors: Catherine G. Corey, Joanne T. Chang and Brian L. Rostron

Validity of oral fluid test for Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol in drivers using the 2013 National Roadside Survey Data

Driving under the influence of marijuana is a serious traffic safety concern in the United States. Delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the main active compound in marijuana. Although blood THC testing is a m...

Authors: Huiyan Jin, Sharifa Z. Williams, Stanford T. Chihuri, Guohua Li and Qixuan Chen

Common data elements collected among universities for sport-related concussion studies

Universities are increasingly implementing programs to effectively respond to and manage sport-related concussions (SRCs). One such effort is to develop common data elements (CDEs) and standardize data collect...

Authors: Jingzhen Yang, Corinne Peek-Asa, James M. Noble, James Torner, Paul Schmidt and Martha L. Cooper

Epidemiology of asphyxiation suicides in the United States, 2005–2014

From 2005 to 2014, the asphyxiation suicide rate in the United States (U.S.) increased by 45.7% from 2.45 to 3.57 per 100,000 population. The primary purpose of this cross-sectional study was to describe deced...

Authors: Rebecca K. Yau and Mallie J. Paschall

Firearm ownership among American veterans: findings from the 2015 National Firearm Survey

While the majority of veteran suicides involve firearms, no contemporary data describing firearm ownership among US veterans are available. This study uses survey data to describe the prevalence of firearm own...

Authors: Emily C. Cleveland, Deborah Azrael, Joseph A. Simonetti and Matthew Miller