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Children at danger: injury fatalities among children in San Diego County
External causes of death are important in the pediatric population worldwide. We performed an analysis of all injury-fatalities in children between ages zero and 17 years, between January 2000 and December 2006, in San Diego County, California, United States of America. Information was obtained from...
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author | Fraga, Andrea M. A. Fraga, Gustavo P. Stanley, Christina Costantini, Todd W. Coimbra, Raul |
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description | External causes of death are important in the pediatric population worldwide. We performed an analysis of all injury-fatalities in children between ages zero and 17 years, between January 2000 and December 2006, in San Diego County, California, United States of America. Information was obtained from the County of San Diego Medical Examiner’s database. External causes were selected and grouped by intent and mechanism. Demographics, location of death and relation between the injury mechanism and time of death were described. There were 884 medico-legal examinations, of which 480 deaths were due to external causes. There majority were males (328, 68.3%) and whites (190, 39.6%). The most prevalent mechanism of injury leading to death was road traffic accidents (40.2%), followed by asphyxia (22.7%) and penetrating trauma (17.7%). Unintentional injuries occurred in 65.8% and intentional injuries, including homicide and suicide, occurred in 24.2 and 9.4%, respectively. Death occurred at the scene in 196 cases (40.9%). Most deaths occurred in highways (35.3%) and at home (28%). One hundred forty-six patients (30.4%) died in the first 24 h. Seven percent died 1 week after the initial injury. Among the cases that died at the scene, 48.3% were motor vehicle accidents, 20.9% were victims of firearms, 6.5% died from poisoning, 5% from hanging, and 4% from drowning. External causes remain an important cause of death in children in San Diego County. Specific strategies to decrease road-traffic accidents and homicides must be developed and implemented to reduce the burden of injury-related deaths in children. |
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spelling | pubmed-28364672010-03-24 Children at danger: injury fatalities among children in San Diego County Fraga, Andrea M. A. Fraga, Gustavo P. Stanley, Christina Costantini, Todd W. Coimbra, Raul Eur J Epidemiol Pediatric Epidemiology External causes of death are important in the pediatric population worldwide. We performed an analysis of all injury-fatalities in children between ages zero and 17 years, between January 2000 and December 2006, in San Diego County, California, United States of America. Information was obtained from the County of San Diego Medical Examiner’s database. External causes were selected and grouped by intent and mechanism. Demographics, location of death and relation between the injury mechanism and time of death were described. There were 884 medico-legal examinations, of which 480 deaths were due to external causes. There majority were males (328, 68.3%) and whites (190, 39.6%). The most prevalent mechanism of injury leading to death was road traffic accidents (40.2%), followed by asphyxia (22.7%) and penetrating trauma (17.7%). Unintentional injuries occurred in 65.8% and intentional injuries, including homicide and suicide, occurred in 24.2 and 9.4%, respectively. Death occurred at the scene in 196 cases (40.9%). Most deaths occurred in highways (35.3%) and at home (28%). One hundred forty-six patients (30.4%) died in the first 24 h. Seven percent died 1 week after the initial injury. Among the cases that died at the scene, 48.3% were motor vehicle accidents, 20.9% were victims of firearms, 6.5% died from poisoning, 5% from hanging, and 4% from drowning. External causes remain an important cause of death in children in San Diego County. Specific strategies to decrease road-traffic accidents and homicides must be developed and implemented to reduce the burden of injury-related deaths in children. Springer Netherlands 2010-01-19 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2836467/ /pubmed/20084430 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10654-009-9420-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2010 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Pediatric Epidemiology Fraga, Andrea M. A. Fraga, Gustavo P. Stanley, Christina Costantini, Todd W. Coimbra, Raul Children at danger: injury fatalities among children in San Diego County |
title | Children at danger: injury fatalities among children in San Diego County |
title_full | Children at danger: injury fatalities among children in San Diego County |
title_fullStr | Children at danger: injury fatalities among children in San Diego County |
title_full_unstemmed | Children at danger: injury fatalities among children in San Diego County |
title_short | Children at danger: injury fatalities among children in San Diego County |
title_sort | children at danger: injury fatalities among children in san diego county |
topic | Pediatric Epidemiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2836467/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20084430 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10654-009-9420-1 |
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