TY - JOUR
T1 - Unintentional injuries in the home in the United States
T2 - Part II: Morbidity
AU - Runyan, Carol W.
AU - Perkis, David
AU - Marshall, Stephen W.
AU - Johnson, Renee M.
AU - Coyne-Beasley, Tamera
AU - Waller, Anna E.
AU - Black, Carla
AU - Baccaglini, Lorena
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded by a contract from the Home Safety Council to the University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center, with additional support from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (R49/CCR402444). We are grateful to Daniel Macklin MD, MPH, who assisted with data analyses, and Lois Fingerhut, MPH, who assisted in understanding coding issues within the data. Although the National Center for Health Statistics was responsible for producing the raw data, we are responsible for analyses, interpretations, and conclusions reached in this paper.
PY - 2005/1
Y1 - 2005/1
N2 - Homes are an important setting for nonfatal unintentional injuries. The purpose of this study was to quantify and describe nonfatal, unintentional injuries in the United States, in which the injury took place at home. Data derived from the National Health Interview Survey, National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, and National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys for Outpatient and Emergency Departments. The nonfatal unintentional home injury rate and 95% confidence interval were computed for the United States overall (19981999), as well as by type of injury, gender, and age group. Weights were applied for each data set as designated by the National Center for Health Statistics. In 1998, there were more than 12 million unintentional home injuries requiring some form of medical attention. Falls were the most common injury among all age groups, followed by cutting/piercing injuries, and injuries associated with being struck by or against an object or person. Injury rates were highest among the oldest and youngest age groups. There was inconsistency across data sets with regard to the presence of location information and definitions of the home environment, inclusion criteria, and the presence of external cause of injury and poisoning codes (E-codes). Depending on the data set, information was missing for 8% and 41% of cases on the location of injury, making it impossible to determine whether the injuries occurred in the home environment. Falls are a significant problem, particularly among older adults. Additionally, data collection systems need to be improved so that location of injury data are routinely collected using consistent definitions so as to allow comparisons across data sets and over time.
AB - Homes are an important setting for nonfatal unintentional injuries. The purpose of this study was to quantify and describe nonfatal, unintentional injuries in the United States, in which the injury took place at home. Data derived from the National Health Interview Survey, National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, and National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys for Outpatient and Emergency Departments. The nonfatal unintentional home injury rate and 95% confidence interval were computed for the United States overall (19981999), as well as by type of injury, gender, and age group. Weights were applied for each data set as designated by the National Center for Health Statistics. In 1998, there were more than 12 million unintentional home injuries requiring some form of medical attention. Falls were the most common injury among all age groups, followed by cutting/piercing injuries, and injuries associated with being struck by or against an object or person. Injury rates were highest among the oldest and youngest age groups. There was inconsistency across data sets with regard to the presence of location information and definitions of the home environment, inclusion criteria, and the presence of external cause of injury and poisoning codes (E-codes). Depending on the data set, information was missing for 8% and 41% of cases on the location of injury, making it impossible to determine whether the injuries occurred in the home environment. Falls are a significant problem, particularly among older adults. Additionally, data collection systems need to be improved so that location of injury data are routinely collected using consistent definitions so as to allow comparisons across data sets and over time.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.amepre.2004.09.017
DO - 10.1016/j.amepre.2004.09.017
M3 - Review article
C2 - 15626561
AN - SCOPUS:11144224111
VL - 28
SP - 80
EP - 87
JO - American Journal of Preventive Medicine
JF - American Journal of Preventive Medicine
SN - 0749-3797
IS - 1
ER -