Pediatric emergency department visits for pedestrian and bicyclist injuries in the US.
Katherine C Wheeler-MartinStephen J MooneyDavid C LeeAndrew RundleCharles DiMaggioPublished in: Injury epidemiology (2017)
TBI in young pedestrian ED patients was associated with a higher risk of mortality compared to cyclists. There is a role for concurrent clinical focus on TBI recovery alongside ongoing efforts to mitigate and prevent motor vehicle crashes with pedestrians and bicyclists. Differences between youth pedestrian and cycling injury trends merit further exploration and localized analyses, with respect to behavior patterns and interventions. ED data captures a substantially larger number of pediatric pedestrian injuries compared to crash reports and can play a role in those analyses.
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