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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

Evaluation of Iowa’s anti-bullying law

Bullying is the most common form of youth aggression. Although 49 of all 50 states in the U.S. have an anti-bullying law in place to prevent bullying, little is known about the effectiveness of these laws. Our...

Authors: Marizen Ramirez, Patrick Ten Eyck, Corinne Peek-Asa, Angela Onwuachi-Willig and Joseph E. Cavanaugh

Anticipated resource utilization for injury versus non-injury pediatric visits to emergency departments

Childhood injuries are increasingly treated in emergency departments (EDs) but the relationship between injury severity and ED resource utilization has not been evaluated. The objective of this study was to co...

Authors: Mark R. Zonfrillo, Michelle L. Macy, Lawrence J. Cook, Tomohiko Funai, Rachel M. Stanley, James M. Chamberlain, Rebecca M. Cunningham and Elizabeth R. Alpern

Development of a curriculum and roadside screening tool for Law enforcement identification of medical impairment in aging drivers

An estimated one in five drivers will be over 65 by 2030. Compared with their younger counterparts, older adults are more likely to experience health and functional impairments, including cognitive dysfunction...

Authors: Linda L. Hill, Jill Rybar, James Stowe and Jana Jahns

Epidemiology of skateboarding-related injuries sustained by children and adolescents 5-19 years of age and treated in US emergency departments: 1990 through 2008

The goal was to examine the patterns and trends of skateboarding-related injuries sustained by children and adolescents in the United States.

Authors: Lara B. McKenzie, Erica Fletcher, Nicolas G. Nelson, Kristin J. Roberts and Elizabeth G. Klein

Spatial analysis of the association of alcohol outlets and alcohol-related pedestrian/bicyclist injuries in New York City

Pedestrian and bicyclist injury is an important public health issue. The retail environment, particularly the presence of alcohol outlets, may contribute the the risk of pedestrian or bicyclist injury, but thi...

Authors: Charles DiMaggio, Stephen Mooney, Spiros Frangos and Stephen Wall

Restraint use and risky driving behaviors across drug types and drug and alcohol combinations for drivers involved in a fatal motor vehicle collision on U.S. roadways

While driving impaired is a well-recognized risk factor for motor vehicle (MV) crash, recent trends in recreational drug use and abuse may pose increased threats to occupant safety. This study examines mechani...

Authors: Chang Liu, Yanlan Huang and Joyce C. Pressley

Motorcycle helmet effectiveness in reducing head, face and brain injuries by state and helmet law

Despite evidence that motorcycle helmets reduce morbidity and mortality, helmet laws and rates of helmet use vary by state in the U.S.

Authors: Cody S. Olsen, Andrea M. Thomas, Michael Singleton, Anna M. Gaichas, Tracy J. Smith, Gary A. Smith, Justin Peng, Michael J. Bauer, Ming Qu, Denise Yeager, Timothy Kerns, Cynthia Burch and Lawrence J. Cook

Texting while driving: the development and validation of the distracted driving survey and risk score among young adults

Texting while driving and other cell-phone reading and writing activities are high-risk activities associated with motor vehicle collisions and mortality. This paper describes the development and preliminary e...

Authors: Regan W. Bergmark, Emily Gliklich, Rong Guo and Richard E. Gliklich

Associations of financial stressors and physical intimate partner violence perpetration

Contextual factors, such as exposure to stressors, may be antecedents to IPV perpetration. These contextual factors may be amenable to modification through intervention and prevention. However, few studies hav...

Authors: Laura M. Schwab-Reese, Corinne Peek-Asa and Edith Parker

Social support and older adult falls

Social support has been shown to be associated with various positive health outcomes among older adults but has not been previously examined in relation to falls, which are a serious health concern among older...

Authors: Laura Durbin, Rebekah J. Kharrazi, Rebecca Graber and Thelma J. Mielenz