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Injury epidemiology

Journal Volume: 8
Journal Issue: 1
Journal Year: 2021
Articles in SafetyLit: 52

A comparison and analysis of seven gun law permissiveness scales

A cross sectional study of non-medical use of prescription opioids and suicidal behaviors among adolescents

An emergency department medical record review for adolescent intentional self-harm injuries

An epidemiologic comparison of acute and overuse injuries in high school sports

Analysis of the regional distribution of road traffic mortality and associated factors in Japan

Application of data linkage techniques to Pacific Northwest commercial fishing injury and fatality data

Associations between state intimate partner violence-related firearm policies and injuries among women and men who experience intimate partner violence

Barriers to recruitment, retention and intervention delivery in a randomized trial among patients with firearm injuries

Characteristics and patterns of older adult homicides in the United States

Clinical strategies for reducing firearm suicide

Cohort study of medical cannabis authorization and motor vehicle crash-related healthcare visits in 2014-2017 in Ontario, Canada

Colorado's first year of extreme risk protection orders

Cost-effectiveness analysis of a large-scale crèche intervention to prevent child drowning in rural Bangladesh

COVID-19-related violence trend data challenges & a resource for injury researchers

Criminal charge history, handgun purchasing, and demographic characteristics of legal handgun purchasers in California

Criminal punishment and violent injury in Minnesota

Development of a scale to measure expected concussion reporting behavior

Driving contradictions: behaviors and attitudes regarding handheld and hands-free cellphone use while driving among young drivers

Effect of orthopaedic resident education on screening for intimate partner violence

Effect of wearing a helmet on the occurrence of head injuries in motorcycle riders in Benin: a case-control study

Efficacy of a mobile technology-based intervention for increasing parents' safety knowledge and actions: a randomized controlled trial

Epidemiology of pediatric trauma in the Kingdom of Bahrain: a national pediatric trauma registry pilot study

Epidemiology of sudden death in organized school sports in Japan

Examining differences between mass, multiple, and single-victim homicides to inform prevention: findings from the National Violent Death Reporting System

Firearm purchasing and firearm violence during the coronavirus pandemic in the United States: a cross-sectional study

Firework-related injuries treated at emergency departments in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 compared to 2018-2019

Furniture and television tip-over injuries to children treated in United States emergency departments

Ghost guns: spookier than you think they are

Gun violence against unhoused and unstably housed women: a cross-sectional study that highlights links to childhood violence

Guns, violence, politics: the gyre widens

Hand and wrist injuries among collegiate athletes vary with athlete division

Handgun purchasing characteristics and firearm suicide risk: a nested case-control study

Impact of ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM coding transition on trauma hospitalization trends among young adults in 12 states

Interrupted time series design to evaluate ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM coding changes on trends in Colorado emergency department visits related to traumatic brain injury

Measuring the hidden burden of violence: use of explicit and proxy codes in Minnesota injury hospitalizations, 2004-2014

Neighborhood disadvantage and firearm injury: does shooting location matter?

Non-fatal senior pickleball and tennis-related injuries treated in United States emergency departments, 2010-2019

Pediatric patients with dog bites presenting to US children's hospitals

Racial disparities in mortality after severe traumatic brain injury in childhood: mediators identified by Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of trauma registry data

Rideshare use among parents and their children

Risk of suicide among U.S. veterans who deployed as part of Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation New Dawn

The Advancing Understanding of Transportation Options (AUTO) study: design and methods of a multi-center study of decision aid for older drivers

The descriptive epidemiology of brand-specific gun ownership in the US: results from the 2019 National Lawful Use of Guns Survey

The effect of the lockdown executive order during the COVID-19 pandemic in recent trauma admissions in Puerto Rico

The mechanism and pattern of injuries of undocumented immigrants crossing the Texas-Mexico border along the Rio Grande Valley

The risks of warm nights and wet days in the context of climate change: assessing road safety outcomes in Boston, USA and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

The role of domestic violence in fatal mass shootings in the United States, 2014-2019

The time is now: why we must identify and address health disparities in sport and recreation injury

Trends in shaken baby syndrome diagnosis codes among young children hospitalized for abuse

US children of minority race are less likely to be admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit after traumatic injury, a retrospective analysis of a single pediatric trauma center

Using Crash Outcome Data Evaluation System (CODES) to examine injury in front vs. rear-seated infants and children involved in a motor vehicle crash in New York State

Using hospitalization data for injury surveillance in agriculture, forestry and fishing: a crosswalk between ICD10CM external cause of injury coding and The Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System