Injury Characteristics and Predisposing Effects of Various Outdoor Traumatic Situations in Children and Adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Backgroud

Many studies have reported injury characteristics of individual traumatic situations. However, a comparative analysis of specific risks is meaningful to better understand injury characteristics and help establish injury-prevention measures. This study was conducted to investigate and compare injury characteristics in children and adolescents by various outdoor traumatic situations.

Methods

Outdoor traumatic situations were determined and classified into physical activity-related injury (n = 3,983) and pedestrian (n = 784) and passenger (n = 1,757) injuries in traffic accidents. Home injury (n = 16,121) was used as the control group. Then, the characteristics of each outdoor trauma were compared with 1:1 matched indoor trauma (among home injuries); each outdoor trau

SUBMITTER: Hwang IY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8380528 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature