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  1. Many unintentional injuries that occur in and around the home can be prevented through the use of safety equipment and by consistently following existing safety recommendations. Unfortunately, uptake of these ...

    Authors: Lara B. McKenzie, Kristin J. Roberts, Roxanne Clark, Rebecca McAdams, Mahmoud Abdel-Rasoul, Elizabeth G. Klein, Sarah A. Keim, Orie Kristel, Alison Szymanski, Christopher G. Cotton and Wendy C. Shields

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2018 5:5

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  2. Currently, an estimated 7.9 million US adults use electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS). Although published reports have identified fires and explosions related to use of ENDS since 2009, these reports d...

    Authors: Catherine G. Corey, Joanne T. Chang and Brian L. Rostron

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2018 5:4

    Content type: Short Report

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  3. Driving under the influence of marijuana is a serious traffic safety concern in the United States. Delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the main active compound in marijuana. Although blood THC testing is a m...

    Authors: Huiyan Jin, Sharifa Z. Williams, Stanford T. Chihuri, Guohua Li and Qixuan Chen

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2018 5:3

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  4. Universities are increasingly implementing programs to effectively respond to and manage sport-related concussions (SRCs). One such effort is to develop common data elements (CDEs) and standardize data collect...

    Authors: Jingzhen Yang, Corinne Peek-Asa, James M. Noble, James Torner, Paul Schmidt and Martha L. Cooper

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2018 5:2

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  6. While the majority of veteran suicides involve firearms, no contemporary data describing firearm ownership among US veterans are available. This study uses survey data to describe the prevalence of firearm own...

    Authors: Emily C. Cleveland, Deborah Azrael, Joseph A. Simonetti and Matthew Miller

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2017 4:33

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  8. Despite reductions in youth pedestrian and bicyclist deaths over the past two decades, these injuries remain a substantial cause of morbidity and mortality for children and adolescents. There is a need for add...

    Authors: Katherine Wheeler-Martin, Stephen J. Mooney, David C. Lee, Andrew Rundle and Charles DiMaggio

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2017 4:31

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  9. Participation in half-marathon has been steeply increasing during the past decade. In line, a vast number of half-marathon running schedules has surfaced. Unfortunately, the injury incidence proportion for hal...

    Authors: Camma Damsted, Erik Thorlund Parner, Henrik Sørensen, Laurent Malisoux and Rasmus Oestergaard Nielsen

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2017 4:30

    Content type: Study Protocol

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  10. Traumatic head injuries (THI) are a critical public health problem worldwide, with more than 10 million individuals affected every year. In Saudi Arabia (SA), the burden of THI is unknown even though injury is...

    Authors: Suliman Alghnam, Alaa AlSayyari, Ibrahim Albabtain, Bader Aldebasi and Mohamed Alkelya

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2017 4:29

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  11. While head injuries and concussions are major concerns among soccer players, the multifactorial nature of head injury observations in this group remains relatively undefined. We aim to extend previous analyses...

    Authors: Avinash Chandran, Mary J. Barron, Beverly J. Westerman and Loretta DiPietro

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2017 4:28

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  12. Research suggests antihypertensive medications are associated with fractures in older adults, however results are inconsistent and few have examined how the association varies over time. We sought to examine t...

    Authors: Jennifer L. Hargrove, Yvonne M. Golightly, Virginia Pate, Carri H. Casteel, Laura R. Loehr, Stephen W. Marshall and Til Stürmer

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2017 4:27

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  13. Managing injury risk is important for maximising athlete availability and performance. Although athletes are inherently predisposed to musculoskeletal injuries by participating in sports, etiology models have ...

    Authors: Mark Roe, Shane Malone, Catherine Blake, Kieran Collins, Conor Gissane, Fionn Büttner, John C. Murphy and Eamonn Delahunt

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2017 4:26

    Content type: Commentary

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  14. A scientific research project has started in the Netherlands with the aim of developing and implementing an evidence-based intervention to prevent the occurrence of musculoskeletal injuries among young and adu...

    Authors: Vincent Gouttebarge, Marije van Sluis, Evert Verhagen and Johannes Zwerver

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2017 4:25

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  15. Drug overdose is a public health crisis in the United States, due in part to the unintended consequences of increases in prescribing of opioid analgesics. Many clinicians evaluate risk markers for opioid-relat...

    Authors: Joanne E. Brady, Rebecca Giglio, Katherine M. Keyes, Charles DiMaggio and Guohua Li

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2017 4:24

    Content type: Review

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  16. Health informatics projects combining statewide birth populations with child welfare records have emerged as a valuable approach to conducting longitudinal research of child maltreatment. The potential bias re...

    Authors: Jared W. Parrish, Meghan E. Shanahan, Patricia G. Schnitzer, Paul Lanier, Julie L. Daniels and Stephen W. Marshall

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2017 4:23

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  17. As an important indicator of mobility, driving confers a host of social and health benefits to older adults. Despite the importance of safe mobility as the population ages, longitudinal data are lacking about ...

    Authors: Guohua Li, David W. Eby, Robert Santos, Thelma J. Mielenz, Lisa J. Molnar, David Strogatz, Marian E. Betz, Carolyn DiGuiseppi, Lindsay H. Ryan, Vanya Jones, Samantha I. Pitts, Linda L. Hill, Charles J. DiMaggio, David LeBlanc and Howard F. Andrews

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2017 4:22

    Content type: Research Methods

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  18. Fall-related deaths continue to be the leading cause of accidental deaths in the older adult (65+ year) population. However, many fall-related fatalities are unspecified and little is known about the fall char...

    Authors: Sara M. Deprey, Lynda Biedrzycki and Kristine Klenz

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2017 4:21

    Content type: Research Methods

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  19. Firearm injuries disproportionately affect young, male, non-White populations, causing substantial individual and societal burden. Annual costs for hospitalized firearm injuries have not been widely described,...

    Authors: Corinne Peek-Asa, Brandon Butcher and Joseph E. Cavanaugh

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2017 4:20

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  20. The World Trade Center attack of September 11, 2001 in New York City (9/11) exposed thousands of people to intense concentrations of hazardous materials that have resulted in reports of increased levels of ast...

    Authors: Howard E. Alper, Shengchao Yu, Steven D. Stellman and Robert M. Brackbill

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2017 4:17

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  21. Few studies compare sports injury patterns in different settings. This study described the epidemiology of soccer injuries presenting to emergency departments (EDs) and compared injuries presenting to EDs to i...

    Authors: Zachary Y. Kerr, Lauren A. Pierpoint, Dustin W. Currie, Erin B. Wasserman and R. Dawn Comstock

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2017 4:19

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  22. Falls are a common and debilitating health problem for older adults. Older adults are often treated and discharged home by emergency department (ED)-based providers with the hope they will receive falls preven...

    Authors: Kalpana Narayan Shankar, Nicole J. Treadway, Alyssa A. Taylor, Alan H. Breaud, Elizabeth W. Peterson and Jonathan Howland

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2017 4:18

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  23. Recreational scuba diving involves the use of complex instruments and specialized skills in an unforgiving environment. Errors in dive preparation in such an environment may lead to unsafe conditions, mishaps,...

    Authors: Shabbar I. Ranapurwala, Steve Wing, Charles Poole, Kristen L. Kucera, Stephen W. Marshall and Petar J. Denoble

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2017 4:16

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  24. While factors including remoteness, alcohol consumption, age and Indigenous ethnicity are well-documented associations of trauma mortality, less is known of trauma seasonality. This is particularly relevant to...

    Authors: Kathleen M. McDermott, Matt B. Brearley, Steven M. Hudson, Linda Ward and David J. Read

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2017 4:15

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  26. The aim of this study is to examine the rates of sports related injuries in adolescents based on the severity of their long-term illnesses or disabilities (LTID). Few injury prevention strategies in sports and...

    Authors: Kwok W. Ng, Jorma Tynjälä, Pauli Rintala, Sami Kokko and Lasse Kannas

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2017 4:13

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  27. The state of Florida continues to report significant gender, ethnic and racial disparities in trauma incidence, access to care and outcomes in the adult population. Our objective was to assess pediatric injury...

    Authors: Carmen Ramos Irizarry, Patrick C. Hardigan, Mark G. Mc Kenney, Gretchen Holmes, Rudy Flores, Brenda Benson and Ascension M. Torres

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2017 4:12

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  28. Gun theft is an important source of guns used by criminals. Yet no empirical work has focused on the characteristics of gun owners that distinguish those who have had their guns stolen from those who have not....

    Authors: David Hemenway, Deborah Azrael and Matthew Miller

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2017 4:11

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  29. The purpose of this study was to review the reported associations of depression and antidepressants with motor vehicle crashes.

    Authors: Linda L. Hill, Vanessa L. Lauzon, Elise L. Winbrock, Guohua Li, Stanford Chihuri and Kelly C. Lee

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2017 4:10

    Content type: Review

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  30. Continued automobile driving is important for the wellbeing and independence of older adults. Frailty has been associated with a variety of negative health outcomes, but studies are lacking on the potential as...

    Authors: Elizabeth G. Bond, Laura L. Durbin, Jodi A. Cisewski, Min Qian, Jack M. Guralnik, Judith D. Kasper and Thelma J. Mielenz

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2017 4:9

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  33. Participation in lacrosse has grown at the collegiate levels. However, little research has examined the epidemiology of collegiate men’s lacrosse injuries. This study describes the epidemiology of injuries in ...

    Authors: Zachary Y. Kerr, Adam Quigley, Susan W. Yeargin, Andrew E. Lincoln, James Mensch, Shane V. Caswell and Thomas P. Dompier

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2017 4:6

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  34. The United States has by far the highest rates of homicide perpetration among high-income countries. The perpetration of homicide by children is often newsworthy, but little is known about the incidence or the...

    Authors: David Hemenway and Sara J. Solnick

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2017 4:5

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  36. A data acquisition from the medical sector may give one important view of the burden on the society caused by vehicle related injuries. The official police-reported statistics may only reflect a part of all ve...

    Authors: Johanna Björnstig, Per-Olof Bylund and Ulf Björnstig

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2017 4:4

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  37. Muay Thai is a style of kickboxing that allows full-contact blows to an unprotected head, torso and legs, and, as in any combat sport, there is an inherent risk of injury. Previous observational studies have s...

    Authors: Stephen Strotmeyer Jr and Reidar P. Lystad

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2017 4:2

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  38. Vision Zero (VZ) is a public program that aims to have zero fatalities or serious injuries from road traffic crashes. This article examines various major components of VZ: how VZ redefines road safety, how VZ ...

    Authors: Ellen Kim, Peter Muennig and Zohn Rosen

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2017 4:1

    Content type: Review

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  40. Tractors and other slow-moving self-propelled farm equipment are often used on public roadway to transfer goods from the farm to a market or distributer. Increased roadway exposure has led to a growing concern...

    Authors: Mitchell Greenan, Maisha Toussaint, Corinne Peek-Asa, Diane Rohlman and Marizen R. Ramirez

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2016 3:31

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  41. Advanced in-vehicle technologies have been proposed as a potential way to keep older adults driving for as long as they can safely do so, by taking into account the common declines in functional abilities expe...

    Authors: David W. Eby, Lisa J. Molnar, Liang Zhang, Renée M. St. Louis, Nicole Zanier, Lidia P. Kostyniuk and Sergiu Stanciu

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2016 3:28

    Content type: Review

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  42. Muay Thai is a combat sport of Thailand that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. Currently, little is known about the injuries and risk factors for injuries among Muay Thai fighters...

    Authors: Stephen Strotmeyer Jr., Jeffrey H. Coben, Anthony Fabio, Thomas Songer and Maria Brooks

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2016 3:30

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  43. Musculoskeletal injuries are a common cause of morbidity after road traffic injury (RTI) in motorizing countries. District hospitals provide front-line orthopedic care in Uganda and other sub-Saharan African n...

    Authors: Dan K. Kisitu, Lauren E. Eyler, Isaac Kajja, Gonzaga Waiswa, Titus Beyeza, David R. Ragland, Isabelle Feldhaus, Catherine Juillard and Rochelle A. Dicker

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2016 3:27

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  44. Research on occupational safety of law enforcement officers (LEOs) has primarily focused on fatal assaults. Nonfatal assaults, however, have received little attention. The goal of this study was to describe th...

    Authors: Cassandra K. Crifasi, Keshia M. Pollack and Daniel W. Webster

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2016 3:29

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  45. Experiences in adolescence may have a lasting impact on adulthood. The objective of this study is to evaluate the association between adolescent (12–18 years of age) volunteerism with the incidence of illegal ...

    Authors: Shabbar I. Ranapurwala, Carri Casteel and Corinne Peek-Asa

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2016 3:26

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  46. Reliable epidemiological information on injury burden and pattern is essential to formulate effective injury control and prevention strategies. Injury surveillance systems are globally gaining ground as a tool...

    Authors: P. V. M. Lakshmi, Jaya Prasad Tripathy, Nalinikanta Tripathy, Sunita Singh, Deepak Bhatia, Jagnoor Jagnoor and Rajesh Kumar

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2016 3:24

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  47. Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury (TSCI) is relatively uncommon, yet a devastating and costly condition. Despite the human and social impacts, studies describing patients with potential TSCI in the pre-hospital set...

    Authors: Ala’a O. Oteir, Karen Smith, Johannes U. Stoelwinder, Shelley Cox, James W. Middleton and Paul A. Jennings

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2016 3:25

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  48. Most studies of rear-seated occupants have focused on or included pediatric occupants which may not translate to adults. This study examines passenger, driver, vehicle and crash characteristics for rear-seated...

    Authors: Chang Liu and Joyce C. Pressley

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2016 3:23

    Content type: Original Contribution

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  50. Bicycle helmet laws generally increase helmet usage, but few studies assess whether helmet laws reduce disparities. The objective of this study is to assess changes in racial/ethnic disparities in helmet use a...

    Authors: John D. Kraemer

    Citation: Injury Epidemiology 2016 3:21

    Content type: Original Contribution

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