Pediatric Distal Forearm Fracture Epidemiology in Malmo, Sweden-Time Trends During Six Decades.

ABSTRACT: Background  The distal forearm fracture is the most common fracture in children. To allocate health care resources and evaluate if prevention strategies have been successful, it is essential to monitor changes in the epidemiology of common fractures. Methods  Our hospital serves a city in which year 2006 included 276,244 inhabitants (49,664 <17 years of age). Through the hospital archives, we identified fractures sustained by individuals younger than 16 years during 2005 and 2006 and compared these with previous collected and published data from the same area and hospital for the period 1950 to 1994. We used official population data to estimate period-specific fracture rates and age and gender standardized time trends. We report rates as number of fractures per 100,000 person

SUBMITTER: Lempesis V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6892656 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature