Temporal trends in occupational injuries treated in US emergency departments, 2012-2019.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evidence suggests that rates of occupational injuries in the US are decreasing. As several different occupational injury surveillance systems are used in the US, more detailed investigation of this trend is merited. Furthermore, studies of this decrease remain descriptive and do not use inferential statistics. The aim of this study was to provide both descriptive and inferential statistics of temporal trends of occupational injuries treated in US emergency departments (EDs) for 2012 to 2019.

Methods

Monthly non-fatal occupational injury rates from 2012 to 2019 were estimated using the national electronic injury surveillance system-occupational supplement (NEISS-Work) dataset, a nationally representative sample of ED-treated occupational injuries. Rates were genera

SUBMITTER: Lundstrom EW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9999541 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature