Ocular Injury in United States Emergency Departments: Seasonality and Annual Trends Estimated from a Nationally Representative Dataset.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine whether ocular trauma occurs more frequently in the summer months.

Design

Retrospective, cross-sectional study.

Methods

The Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS) is a large, publicly available administrative database that provides nationally representative estimates of emergency department (ED) visits in the United States. Billing codes from NEDS from 2006 to 2013 were used to identify all cases of ocular trauma, and the United States decennial census was used to estimate the population at risk for visiting an ED. The main outcome measures were the seasonal and annual trends in the incidence of ED-diagnosed eye trauma.

Results

Eye trauma was the primary diagnosis for an estimated 5 615 532 ED encounters over the 8-year study period.

SUBMITTER: Ramirez DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6014923 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature