Mechanisms of paediatric injury: an 11-year review of injury trends from the National Trauma Data Bank.

ABSTRACT:

Background/purpose

Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death among children and adolescents. The objective of this study was to describe temporal trends of paediatric traumatic injury over an 11-year period by mechanism of injury (MOI), age, sex, race and ethnicity, injury severity and hospital discharge disposition.

Methods

The National Trauma Data Bank was queried to identify paediatric patients (1-17 years old) injured from 2012 to 2022. Two-sided non-parametric Mann-Kendall trend tests were used to evaluate temporal trends of MOI for all patients and within demographic groups.

Results/outcomes

Over the 11-year period, 1 092 308 injury records met study inclusion criteria and had complete demographic and MOI data. Across all patients, there was a signif

SUBMITTER: Tomas C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12679271 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature