Trends in fatal paediatric unintentional injury: what is going on?

Injury Prevention, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. ip - 045675

Published: May 2, 2025

In recent years, the reduction in rates of fatal unintentional injuries to children USA has not only plateaued, beginning before pandemic, but reversed, with increases across most mechanisms injury. This study seeks understand reasons for this trend, focusing on aged 1–14 years 2001–2023 and highest fatality substantial last few years. The rate fatalities changes were due motor vehicle crashes, drowning, fires burns. Many factors that are associated risk injury actually decreased prevalence over decade while plateauing then increasing. These include improved highway roadway safety designs, lower cigarette smoking, more homes carbon monoxide alarms, fewer mobile homes, higher life-jacket use, small recreational boats decreases child poverty. Increases emotional behavioural disorders likely responsible age group. An important contributor injury, particularly among racial groups experiencing greatest change mortality trajectory, is sociocultural economic environment which live, learn play. Smartphone use by teens caregivers was one factor dramatically increased decade, distraction from phone stands out as culprit increase fatalities.

Language: Английский

Increasing Financial Performance of Pediatric Hospital Medicine Programs Through Appropriate Critical Care Billing

Hospital Pediatrics, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: May 5, 2025

Language: Английский