PHY7.A Child injury and mortality: Emergency department visit rates for children ages 1–14 by leading causes of injury visits, 1995

PHY7.A Child injury and mortality: Emergency department visit rates for children ages 1–14 by leading causes of injury visits, 1995–2008

Characteristic	1995–1996	1997–1998	1999–2000	2001–2002	2003–2004	2005–2006	2007–2008
(Emergency department visits per 1,000 children ages 1–4 and ages 5–14)
Ages 1–4
All injury visits^a	161.2	158.6	165.4	139.3	151.3	150.7	129.0
All initial injury visits^b	—	—	—	129.0	142.7	142.6	115.1
Leading causes of injury visits^c
Cut or pierced from instrument or object	12.2	9.7	12.1	6.5	7.4	5.6	4.4
Fall	47.2	39.2	48.2	35.0	49.3	53.7	45.3
Motor vehicle traffic	6.2	8.1	6.9	6.5	7.4	7.1	4.8
Natural or environmental factors^d	9.9	9.0	14.5	7.4	10.6	10.4	7.0
Overexertion	1.6	4.3	3.0	1.8	2.2	3.4	3.3
Poisoning	9.8	8.3	7.8	4.9	8.1	7.6	5.9
Struck by/against an object or person	24.9	38.2	29.4	28.2	20.5	14.7	16.4
Ages 5–14
All injury visits^a	126.8	119.8	122.9	118.1	120.5	112.1	107.9
All initial injury visits^b	—	—	—	110.0	114.3	105.4	94.5
Leading causes of injury visits^c
Cut or pierced from instrument or object	10.9	10.7	8.4	7.8	7.6	6.5	6.0
Fall	31.3	27.0	27.0	27.6	28.0	28.1	26.9
Motor vehicle traffic	10.1	8.3	10.1	7.7	7.9	8.2	6.3
Natural or environmental factors^d	8.5	6.2	5.7	5.5	8.1	6.2	5.2
Overexertion	2.4	2.3	2.8	3.6	3.8	3.8	4.8
Poisoning	1.6	1.1	1.6	1.4	1.7	1.5	1.4
Struck by/against an object or person	21.1	27.8	30.2	26.9	25.3	20.2	18.9
—Not available.
^a Any emergency department visit where there is a valid first-listed injury diagnosis code or a valid first-listed external cause of injury code.
^b In 2007–2008, 89 percent of injury-related emergency department visits among children ages 1–4 and 88 percent of injury-related emergency department visits among children ages 5–14 were an initial visit.
^c Data for 2001–2008 include initial visits only. Initial visit status was imputed for 2005–2006.
^d Insect or animal bites accounted for the majority of emergency department visits caused by natural or environmental factors.
SOURCE: National Center for Health Statistics, National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey.