Clinical trauma severity of indoor and outdoor injurious falls requiring emergency medical service response
There was a similar proportion of patients with severe injurious falls that occurred indoors and outdoors on streets or sidewalks. These findings suggest the need to determine outdoor environmental risks for outdoor falls to support location-specific interventions.
Authors
- Nicole G. Itzkowitz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5076-3522)
- Henry E. Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4738-0093)
- Remle P. Crowe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9733-9294)
- Katie Burford (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5500-9609)
- Alexander X. Lo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1869-2776)
- Andrew Graham Rundle (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0211-7707)
Institutions
- Northwestern University (US)
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center (US)
- The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (US)
- Columbia University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Injury Epidemiology
- Published
- 2024-08-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s40621-024-00517-1
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.71
Funders
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences