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  1. Pediatric firearm-related deaths and injuries are a serious societal problem. Our study’s objective was to determine social workers’ assessment of child neglect with respect to access or potential access to a ...

    Authors: Charles A. Jennissen, Erin M. Evans, Alycia A. Karsjens and Gerene M. Denning
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2019 6(Suppl 1):29
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 6 Supplement 1

  2. Use of appropriate child passenger safety restraints reduces injury in infants, with rear facing restraints favored over forward facing. In 2011, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) began recommending tha...

    Authors: Yu-Yun Huang, Chang Liu and Joyce C. Pressley
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2019 6(Suppl 1):28
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 6 Supplement 1

  4. Drowning is the third cause of non-intentional injury death worldwide. Beaches of Gironde, in southwestern France, are exposed to strong environmental conditions, leading to rip currents and shore breaks. Bath...

    Authors: Éric Tellier, Bruno Simonnet, Cédric Gil-Jardiné, Bruno Castelle, Marion Bailhache and Louis-Rachid Salmi
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2019 6:17
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

  5. Improving New Zealand’s poor workplace safety record has become a high priority following high profile workplace fatal incidents in 2010 and 2014. Existing routine official data are unable to reliably inform o...

    Authors: Rebbecca Lilley, Bronwen McNoe, Gabrielle Davie, Simon Horsburgh, Brett Maclennan and Tim Driscoll
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2019 6:16
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  6. Increasing athletic trainer (AT) services in high schools has attracted widespread interest across the nation as an effective instrument to manage injuries and improve children’s health, but there is a lack of...

    Authors: Tao Li, Samuel T. Johnson, Michael C. Koester, Annie Hommel and Marc F. Norcross
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2019 6:15
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

  7. This paper describes a protocol for determining the incidence of serious fall injuries for Strategies to Reduce Injuries and Develop Confidence in Elders (STRIDE), a large, multicenter pragmatic clinical trial...

    Authors: David A. Ganz, Albert L. Siu, Jay Magaziner, Nancy K. Latham, Thomas G. Travison, Nancy P. Lorenze, Charles Lu, Rixin Wang, Erich J. Greene, Cynthia L. Stowe, Lea N. Harvin, Katy L. B. Araujo, Jerry H. Gurwitz, Yuri Agrawal, Rosaly Correa-De-Araujo, Peter Peduzzi…
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2019 6:14
    Content type: Study Protocol Published on:

  8. Toy-related injuries have increased significantly in the past decade, in particular those related to ride-on toys. This increase has been attributed to movement related events such as falls and inertial impact...

    Authors: Abbey Fraser, Dao Doan, Mary Lundy, Grant Bevill and Juan Aceros
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2019 6:12
    Content type: Review Published on:

  9. Dwarfism, or skeletal dysplasia, is a term used to describe short stature. Injuries to athletes with disabilities and medical co-morbidities, such as those present in the dwarf population, can have significant...

    Authors: Mathew R. Saffarian, Jensen J. Swampillai, Michael T. Andary, Jim R. Sylvain, Salina E. Halliday and Brian Bratta
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2019 6:13
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

  10. An estimated 2 million youth (in 2017) and 7.9 million adults (in 2015) reported currently using electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS). Reports of poisoning events related to liquid nicotine (e-liquids) ...

    Authors: Joanne T. Chang, Baoguang Wang, Cindy M. Chang and Bridget K. Ambrose
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2019 6:10
    Content type: Short Report Published on:

  12. The World Trade Center (WTC) attacks on September 11, 2001 (9/11) resulted in over 2700 fatalities and thousands injured. Injury on 9/11 has been identified as a risk factor for physical and mental health cond...

    Authors: Melanie H. Jacobson, Robert M. Brackbill, Patricia Frazier and Lisa M. Gargano
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2019 6:8
    Content type: Research Methods Published on:

  13. Firearm workplace homicides are a significant problem in the United States. We sought to provide a current, national-level examination of these crimes and examine how perpetrators accessed firearms used in wor...

    Authors: Mitchell L. Doucette, Maria T. Bulzacchelli, Shannon Frattaroli and Cassandra K. Crifasi
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2019 6:5
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

  14. The original subsequent injury categorisation (SIC-1.0) model aimed to classify relationships between chronological injury sequences to provide insight into the complexity and causation of subsequent injury oc...

    Authors: Liam A. Toohey, Michael K. Drew, Lauren V. Fortington, Miranda J. Menaspa, Caroline F. Finch and Jill L. Cook
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2019 6:9
    Content type: Short Report Published on:

  15. Bicycle-related injuries are among the most common recreational injuries for children in Canada; moreover, bicycle-motor vehicle collisions often result in serious injuries. This study seeks to examine environ...

    Authors: Tona M. Pitt, Alberto Nettel-Aguirre, Gavin R. McCormack, Andrew W. Howard, Camilla Piatkowski, Brian H. Rowe and Brent E. Hagel
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2019 6:7
    Content type: Short Report Published on:

  16. In the US more than 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men have experienced severe physical violence by an intimate partner. The most severe violence, violence that ends in death, disproportionately affects women. Curren...

    Authors: Neil Websdale, Kathleen Ferraro and Steven D. Barger
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2019 6:6
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  17. Unintentional falls from heights, including balconies, result in life threatening traumatic injury. Alcohol, when combined with environmental factors and poor judgement, can potentially lead to fatal outcomes....

    Authors: Kathryn B. Schaffer, Gary Schwendig, Fady Nasrallah, Jiayan Wang and Jess F. Kraus
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2019 6:4
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

  18. The medical legalization of marijuana has been shown to result in an increased risk of motor vehicle injuries. In Colorado, commercialization of recreational marijuana (initiation of retail sales) occurred on ...

    Authors: Christine Chung, Kristin Salottolo, Allen Tanner II, Matthew M. Carrick, Robert Madayag, Gina Berg, Mark Lieser and David Bar-Or
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2019 6:3
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

  19. 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
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2019 6:2
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

  20. 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…
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2019 6:1
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

  23. 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
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2018 5:45
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

  27. 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
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2018 5:40
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

  28. 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
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2018 5:41
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

  29. 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
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2018 5:39
    Content type: Short Report Published on:

  32. 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
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2018 5:36
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

  33. 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
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2018 5:35
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

  34. 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
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2018 5:34
    Content type: Research Methods Published on:

  35. 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
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2018 5:33
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

  36. 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
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2018 5:32
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

  37. 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
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2018 5:31
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

  38. 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
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2018 5:30
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

  39. 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
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2018 5:29
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

  40. 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
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2018 5:28
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  42. 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
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2018 5:26
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

  43. 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
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2018 5:25
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

  44. 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
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2018 5:24
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

  45. 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
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2018 5:23
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

  47. 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
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2018 5:19
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

  48. 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
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2018 5:22
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

  49. 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
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2018 5:18
    Content type: Original Contribution Published on:

  50. 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
    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2018 5(Suppl 1):20
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 5 Supplement 1

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