Pediatric firearm injury related emergency department visits and hospitalizations: a population-based study in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Firearm injury (FI) is the leading cause of death in children and adolescents in the United States (US). We describe the epidemiology of pediatric FI-associated emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations in the US stratified by race and ethnicity.

Methods

Data on pediatric (0-17-year-olds) FI were analyzed using the 2019 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS) and Kids' Inpatient Database (KID), the largest all-payer databases in the US for ED visits and pediatric hospitalizations, respectively. FI encounters were stratified by race and ethnicity. Poisson regression was used to identify factors associated with in-hospital mortality. Sampling weights were applied to generate nationally representative estimates.

Findings

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SUBMITTER: Goel R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10192937 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature