TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1984//
TI  - Playground equipment injuries in a large, urban school district
JO  - American journal of public health
A1  - Schaefer, C.
A1  - Sprunger, L. W.
A1  - Sobolewski, S.
A1  - Boyce, W. Thomas
SP  - 984
EP  - 986
VL  - 74
IS  - 9
N2  - We studied the epidemiologic features of playground equipment-related injuries occurring in a large, urban school district over a two-year period. Nurses in each of the district's 68 elementary schools completed self-coded reporting forms on all injuries meeting standardized criteria. A total of 511 equipment-related injuries were reported, an incidence of 8.9 injuries per 1,000 student-years. One-fourth of the injuries were severe, and climbing equipment was disproportionately represented among playground equipment associated with injuries. Extreme variability was found among school-specific rates of equipment injury, with schools at the two extremes separated by as much as a 40-fold difference in incidence. Two school characteristics--smaller student enrollments and the presence of alternative educational programs--were significantly associated with higher equipment-related injury rates.
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SN  - 0090-0036
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -