Evaluation of Injury Severity and Resource Utilization in Pediatric Firearm and Sharp Force Injuries.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Pediatric firearm injuries are a serious and growing public health problem, constituting the second leading cause of death in children and adolescents in the United States. Firearm injuries have a high case fatality, but knowledge is limited to date regarding their injury severity and health care utilization burden compared with those of other penetrating injuries, especially among children with critical injury.

Objective

To describe and compare the resource utilization, injury severity, and short-term clinical outcomes associated with pediatric firearm injuries and other penetrating trauma.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study used data from the National Trauma Data Bank, an encounter-level registry of trauma data in the United

SUBMITTER: Wolf AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6802232 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature