National Trends in Emergency Department Visits for Child Maltreatment, 2007-2014.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To understand the prevalence of child maltreatment-related emergency department (ED) visits in the United States, we examined data from the 2007 to 2014 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample.

Methods

Based on existing literature, International Classification of Disease, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9 CM) ED discharge codes for children less than 10 years of age were characterized as specified child maltreatment, defined as visits with an explicit maltreatment ICD-9 CM or external causes of injury codes. The prevalence of child maltreatment visits per 100,000 children in the United States (based on Center for Disease Control Wide-ranging ONline Data for Epidemiologic Research estimates) overall and by sociodemographic factors was examined, and tests f

SUBMITTER: Suglia SF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9347219 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature