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Characteristics of unintentional drowning deaths in children with autism spectrum disorder

The reported prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has increased markedly in the past two decades. Recent research indicates that children with ASD are at a substantially increased risk of injury mortal...

Authors: Joseph Guan and Guohua Li

Pediatric emergency department visits for pedestrian and bicyclist injuries in the US

Despite reductions in youth pedestrian and bicyclist deaths over the past two decades, these injuries remain a substantial cause of morbidity and mortality for children and adolescents. There is a need for add...

Authors: Katherine Wheeler-Martin, Stephen J. Mooney, David C. Lee, Andrew Rundle and Charles DiMaggio

Design of ProjectRun21: a 14-week prospective cohort study of the influence of running experience and running pace on running-related injury in half-marathoners

Participation in half-marathon has been steeply increasing during the past decade. In line, a vast number of half-marathon running schedules has surfaced. Unfortunately, the injury incidence proportion for hal...

Authors: Camma Damsted, Erik Thorlund Parner, Henrik Sørensen, Laurent Malisoux and Rasmus Oestergaard Nielsen

Long-term disabilities after traumatic head injury (THI): a retrospective analysis from a large level-I trauma center in Saudi Arabia

Traumatic head injuries (THI) are a critical public health problem worldwide, with more than 10 million individuals affected every year. In Saudi Arabia (SA), the burden of THI is unknown even though injury is...

Authors: Suliman Alghnam, Alaa AlSayyari, Ibrahim Albabtain, Bader Aldebasi and Mohamed Alkelya

Multifactorial examination of sex-differences in head injuries and concussions among collegiate soccer players: NCAA ISS, 2004–2009

While head injuries and concussions are major concerns among soccer players, the multifactorial nature of head injury observations in this group remains relatively undefined. We aim to extend previous analyses...

Authors: Avinash Chandran, Mary J. Barron, Beverly J. Westerman and Loretta DiPietro

Initiation of antihypertensive monotherapy and incident fractures among Medicare beneficiaries

Research suggests antihypertensive medications are associated with fractures in older adults, however results are inconsistent and few have examined how the association varies over time. We sought to examine t...

Authors: Jennifer L. Hargrove, Yvonne M. Golightly, Virginia Pate, Carri H. Casteel, Laura R. Loehr, Stephen W. Marshall and Til Stürmer

A six stage operational framework for individualising injury risk management in sport

Managing injury risk is important for maximising athlete availability and performance. Although athletes are inherently predisposed to musculoskeletal injuries by participating in sports, etiology models have ...

Authors: Mark Roe, Shane Malone, Catherine Blake, Kieran Collins, Conor Gissane, Fionn Büttner, John C. Murphy and Eamonn Delahunt

The prevention of musculoskeletal injuries in volleyball: the systematic development of an intervention and its feasibility

A scientific research project has started in the Netherlands with the aim of developing and implementing an evidence-based intervention to prevent the occurrence of musculoskeletal injuries among young and adu...

Authors: Vincent Gouttebarge, Marije van Sluis, Evert Verhagen and Johannes Zwerver

Risk markers for fatal and non-fatal prescription drug overdose: a meta-analysis

Drug overdose is a public health crisis in the United States, due in part to the unintended consequences of increases in prescribing of opioid analgesics. Many clinicians evaluate risk markers for opioid-relat...

Authors: Joanne E. Brady, Rebecca Giglio, Katherine M. Keyes, Charles DiMaggio and Guohua Li

Quantifying sources of bias in longitudinal data linkage studies of child abuse and neglect: measuring impact of outcome specification, linkage error, and partial cohort follow-up

Health informatics projects combining statewide birth populations with child welfare records have emerged as a valuable approach to conducting longitudinal research of child maltreatment. The potential bias re...

Authors: Jared W. Parrish, Meghan E. Shanahan, Patricia G. Schnitzer, Paul Lanier, Julie L. Daniels and Stephen W. Marshall

Longitudinal Research on Aging Drivers (LongROAD): study design and methods

As an important indicator of mobility, driving confers a host of social and health benefits to older adults. Despite the importance of safe mobility as the population ages, longitudinal data are lacking about ...

Authors: Guohua Li, David W. Eby, Robert Santos, Thelma J. Mielenz, Lisa J. Molnar, David Strogatz, Marian E. Betz, Carolyn DiGuiseppi, Lindsay H. Ryan, Vanya Jones, Samantha I. Pitts, Linda L. Hill, Charles J. DiMaggio, David LeBlanc and Howard F. Andrews

Identifying characteristics and outcomes that are associated with fall-related fatalities: multi-year retrospective summary of fall deaths in older adults from 2005–2012

Fall-related deaths continue to be the leading cause of accidental deaths in the older adult (65+ year) population. However, many fall-related fatalities are unspecified and little is known about the fall char...

Authors: Sara M. Deprey, Lynda Biedrzycki and Kristine Klenz

Cost of hospitalization for firearm injuries by firearm type, intent, and payer in the United States

Firearm injuries disproportionately affect young, male, non-White populations, causing substantial individual and societal burden. Annual costs for hospitalized firearm injuries have not been widely described,...

Authors: Corinne Peek-Asa, Brandon Butcher and Joseph E. Cavanaugh

Injury, intense dust exposure, and chronic disease among survivors of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001

The World Trade Center attack of September 11, 2001 in New York City (9/11) exposed thousands of people to intense concentrations of hazardous materials that have resulted in reports of increased levels of ast...

Authors: Howard E. Alper, Shengchao Yu, Steven D. Stellman and Robert M. Brackbill

Epidemiologic comparisons of soccer-related injuries presenting to emergency departments and reported within high school and collegiate settings

Few studies compare sports injury patterns in different settings. This study described the epidemiology of soccer injuries presenting to emergency departments (EDs) and compared injuries presenting to EDs to i...

Authors: Zachary Y. Kerr, Lauren A. Pierpoint, Dustin W. Currie, Erin B. Wasserman and R. Dawn Comstock

Older adult falls prevention behaviors 60 days post-discharge from an urban emergency department after treatment for a fall

Falls are a common and debilitating health problem for older adults. Older adults are often treated and discharged home by emergency department (ED)-based providers with the hope they will receive falls preven...

Authors: Kalpana Narayan Shankar, Nicole J. Treadway, Alyssa A. Taylor, Alan H. Breaud, Elizabeth W. Peterson and Jonathan Howland

Mishaps and unsafe conditions in recreational scuba diving and pre-dive checklist use: a prospective cohort study

Recreational scuba diving involves the use of complex instruments and specialized skills in an unforgiving environment. Errors in dive preparation in such an environment may lead to unsafe conditions, mishaps,...

Authors: Shabbar I. Ranapurwala, Steve Wing, Charles Poole, Kristen L. Kucera, Stephen W. Marshall and Petar J. Denoble

Characteristics of trauma mortality in the Northern Territory, Australia

While factors including remoteness, alcohol consumption, age and Indigenous ethnicity are well-documented associations of trauma mortality, less is known of trauma seasonality. This is particularly relevant to...

Authors: Kathleen M. McDermott, Matt B. Brearley, Steven M. Hudson, Linda Ward and David J. Read

Select physical performance measures and driving outcomes in older adults

Improving physical functioning may be a future intervention to keep older adults driving safely longer as it can help maintain both physical and cognitive health longer. This systematic review assesses the evi...

Authors: Thelma J. Mielenz, Laura L. Durbin, Jodi A. Cisewski, Jack M. Guralnik and Guohua Li

Do adolescents with long-term illnesses and disabilities have increased risks of sports related injuries?

The aim of this study is to examine the rates of sports related injuries in adolescents based on the severity of their long-term illnesses or disabilities (LTID). Few injury prevention strategies in sports and...

Authors: Kwok W. Ng, Jorma Tynjälä, Pauli Rintala, Sami Kokko and Lasse Kannas

Prevalence and ethnic/racial disparities in the distribution of pediatric injuries in South Florida: implications for the development of community prevention programs

The state of Florida continues to report significant gender, ethnic and racial disparities in trauma incidence, access to care and outcomes in the adult population. Our objective was to assess pediatric injury...

Authors: Carmen Ramos Irizarry, Patrick C. Hardigan, Mark G. Mc Kenney, Gretchen Holmes, Rudy Flores, Brenda Benson and Ascension M. Torres

Whose guns are stolen? The epidemiology of Gun theft victims

Gun theft is an important source of guns used by criminals. Yet no empirical work has focused on the characteristics of gun owners that distinguish those who have had their guns stolen from those who have not....

Authors: David Hemenway, Deborah Azrael and Matthew Miller

Depression, antidepressants and driving safety

The purpose of this study was to review the reported associations of depression and antidepressants with motor vehicle crashes.

Authors: Linda L. Hill, Vanessa L. Lauzon, Elise L. Winbrock, Guohua Li, Stanford Chihuri and Kelly C. Lee

Association between baseline frailty and driving status over time: a secondary analysis of The National Health and Aging Trends Study

Continued automobile driving is important for the wellbeing and independence of older adults. Frailty has been associated with a variety of negative health outcomes, but studies are lacking on the potential as...

Authors: Elizabeth G. Bond, Laura L. Durbin, Jodi A. Cisewski, Min Qian, Jack M. Guralnik, Judith D. Kasper and Thelma J. Mielenz

Interaction of marijuana and alcohol on fatal motor vehicle crash risk: a case–control study

Concurrent use of marijuana and alcohol in drivers is of increasing concern but its role in crash causation has not been well understood.

Authors: Stanford Chihuri, Guohua Li and Qixuan Chen

Retrospectively self-reported age of childhood abuse onset in a United States nationally representative sample

Child abuse is common and several studies have linked it to health outcomes throughout the lifecourse. Recent information about timing of abuse reported retrospectively is underrepresented in the literature, d...

Authors: Alison L. Cammack and Carol J. Hogue

The epidemiology of NCAA men’s lacrosse injuries, 2009/10-2014/15 academic years

Participation in lacrosse has grown at the collegiate levels. However, little research has examined the epidemiology of collegiate men’s lacrosse injuries. This study describes the epidemiology of injuries in ...

Authors: Zachary Y. Kerr, Adam Quigley, Susan W. Yeargin, Andrew E. Lincoln, James Mensch, Shane V. Caswell and Thomas P. Dompier

The epidemiology of homicide perpetration by children

The United States has by far the highest rates of homicide perpetration among high-income countries. The perpetration of homicide by children is often newsworthy, but little is known about the incidence or the...

Authors: David Hemenway and Sara J. Solnick

Letters to the editor in response to studies of guns in the home and homicide and suicide

Letters to the editor are an important venue for scientific discussion and ensuring accountability of authors and editors. We investigated the content and tone of letters to the editor published in response to...

Authors: Douglas J. Wiebe, Kalen Flynn and Charles C. Branas

Vehicle-related injuries in and around a medium sized Swedish City – bicyclist injuries caused the heaviest burden on the medical sector

A data acquisition from the medical sector may give one important view of the burden on the society caused by vehicle related injuries. The official police-reported statistics may only reflect a part of all ve...

Authors: Johanna Björnstig, Per-Olof Bylund and Ulf Björnstig

Perception of injury risk among amateur Muay Thai fighters

Muay Thai is a style of kickboxing that allows full-contact blows to an unprotected head, torso and legs, and, as in any combat sport, there is an inherent risk of injury. Previous observational studies have s...

Authors: Stephen Strotmeyer Jr and Reidar P. Lystad

Vision zero: a toolkit for road safety in the modern era

Vision Zero (VZ) is a public program that aims to have zero fatalities or serious injuries from road traffic crashes. This article examines various major components of VZ: how VZ redefines road safety, how VZ ...

Authors: Ellen Kim, Peter Muennig and Zohn Rosen

An overview of geospatial methods used in unintentional injury epidemiology

Injuries are a leading cause of death and disability around the world. Injury incidence is often associated with socio-economic and physical environmental factors. The application of geospatial methods has bee...

Authors: Himalaya Singh, Lauren V. Fortington, Helen Thompson and Caroline F. Finch

The effects of roadway characteristics on farm equipment crashes: a geographic information systems approach

Tractors and other slow-moving self-propelled farm equipment are often used on public roadway to transfer goods from the farm to a market or distributer. Increased roadway exposure has led to a growing concern...

Authors: Mitchell Greenan, Maisha Toussaint, Corinne Peek-Asa, Diane Rohlman and Marizen R. Ramirez

Use, perceptions, and benefits of automotive technologies among aging drivers

Advanced in-vehicle technologies have been proposed as a potential way to keep older adults driving for as long as they can safely do so, by taking into account the common declines in functional abilities expe...

Authors: David W. Eby, Lisa J. Molnar, Liang Zhang, Renée M. St. Louis, Nicole Zanier, Lidia P. Kostyniuk and Sergiu Stanciu

Epidemiology of Muay Thai fight-related injuries

Muay Thai is a combat sport of Thailand that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. Currently, little is known about the injuries and risk factors for injuries among Muay Thai fighters...

Authors: Stephen Strotmeyer Jr., Jeffrey H. Coben, Anthony Fabio, Thomas Songer and Maria Brooks

The role of Ugandan District Hospital orthopedic units in the care of vulnerable road users: a cross-sectional study

Musculoskeletal injuries are a common cause of morbidity after road traffic injury (RTI) in motorizing countries. District hospitals provide front-line orthopedic care in Uganda and other sub-Saharan African n...

Authors: Dan K. Kisitu, Lauren E. Eyler, Isaac Kajja, Gonzaga Waiswa, Titus Beyeza, David R. Ragland, Isabelle Feldhaus, Catherine Juillard and Rochelle A. Dicker

Assaults against U.S. law enforcement officers in the line-of-duty: situational context and predictors of lethality

Research on occupational safety of law enforcement officers (LEOs) has primarily focused on fatal assaults. Nonfatal assaults, however, have received little attention. The goal of this study was to describe th...

Authors: Cassandra K. Crifasi, Keshia M. Pollack and Daniel W. Webster

Volunteering in adolescence and young adulthood crime involvement: a longitudinal analysis from the add health study

Experiences in adolescence may have a lasting impact on adulthood. The objective of this study is to evaluate the association between adolescent (12–18 years of age) volunteerism with the incidence of illegal ...

Authors: Shabbar I. Ranapurwala, Carri Casteel and Corinne Peek-Asa

A pilot study of a hospital-based injury surveillance system in a secondary level district hospital in India: lessons learnt and way ahead

Reliable epidemiological information on injury burden and pattern is essential to formulate effective injury control and prevention strategies. Injury surveillance systems are globally gaining ground as a tool...

Authors: P. V. M. Lakshmi, Jaya Prasad Tripathy, Nalinikanta Tripathy, Sunita Singh, Deepak Bhatia, Jagnoor Jagnoor and Rajesh Kumar

The epidemiology of pre-hospital potential spinal cord injuries in Victoria, Australia: a six year retrospective cohort study

Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury (TSCI) is relatively uncommon, yet a devastating and costly condition. Despite the human and social impacts, studies describing patients with potential TSCI in the pre-hospital set...

Authors: Ala’a O. Oteir, Karen Smith, Johannes U. Stoelwinder, Shelley Cox, James W. Middleton and Paul A. Jennings

Side impact motor vehicle crashes: driver, passenger, vehicle and crash characteristics for fatally and nonfatally-injured rear-seated adults

Most studies of rear-seated occupants have focused on or included pediatric occupants which may not translate to adults. This study examines passenger, driver, vehicle and crash characteristics for rear-seated...

Authors: Chang Liu and Joyce C. Pressley

Trauma recidivism at an emergency department of a Swedish medical center

To inform targeted prevention, we studied patterns of trauma recidivism and whether a first injury predicts the risk for a recurrent injury.

Authors: Fredrik Röding, Marie Lindkvist, Ulrica Bergström, Olle Svensson and Jack Lysholm

Bicycle helmet laws and persistent racial and ethnic helmet use disparities among urban high school students: a repeated cross-sectional analysis

Bicycle helmet laws generally increase helmet usage, but few studies assess whether helmet laws reduce disparities. The objective of this study is to assess changes in racial/ethnic disparities in helmet use a...

Authors: John D. Kraemer

Erratum to: Gender and age differences in components of traffic-related pedestrian death rates: exposure, risk of crash and fatality rate

Authors: María Ángeles Onieva-García, Virginia Martínez-Ruiz, Pablo Lardelli-Claret, José Juan Jiménez-Moleón, Carmen Amezcua-Prieto, Juan de Dios Luna-del-Castillo and Eladio Jiménez-Mejías

Mortality from motorcycle crashes: the baby-boomer cohort effect

Motorcyclists are known to be at substantially higher risk per mile traveled of dying from crashes than car occupants. In 2014, motorcycling made up less than 1 % of person-miles traveled but 13 % of the total...

Authors: Victor Puac-Polanco, Katherine M. Keyes and Guohua Li

Complications and in-hospital mortality in trauma patients treated in intensive care units in the United States, 2013

Traumatic injury is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, but epidemiologic data about trauma patients who require intensive care unit (ICU) admission are scant. This study aimed to describe th...

Authors: Meghan Prin and Guohua Li

Baby walker injury, disability, and death in a high-income middle eastern country, as reported by siblings

Baby walkers (BWs) are frequent causes of infant injuries. Little research is reported from the Middle East and few population-based studies anywhere.

Authors: Peter Barss, Michal Grivna, Amna Al-Hanaee, Ayesha Al-Dhahab, Fatima Al-Kaabi and Shamma Al-Muhairi

Implementing exercise programs to prevent falls: systematic descriptive review

The United States Preventive Services Task Force recommends exercise to prevent falls in community-dwelling adults aged ≥ 65 years at increased fall risk. However, little is known about how best to implement e...

Authors: Victoria Shier, Eric Trieu and David A. Ganz

Gender and age differences in components of traffic-related pedestrian death rates: exposure, risk of crash and fatality rate

This ecological study aimed i) to quantify the association of age and gender with the three components of pedestrians’ death rates after a pedestrian-vehicle crash: exposure, risk of crash and fatality, and ii...

Authors: María Ángeles Onieva-García, Virginia Martínez-Ruiz, Pablo Lardelli-Claret, José Juan Jiménez-Moleón, Carmen Amezcua-Prieto, Juan de Dios Luna-del-Castillo and Eladio Jiménez-Mejías