PHY6.A: Child injury and mortality: Emergency department visit rates for children ages 1–14 by leading causes of injury visits, 1995

PHY6.A: Child injury and mortality: Emergency department visit rates for children ages 1–14 by leading causes of injury visits, 1995–2004

Characteristic	1995–1996	1997–1998	1999–2000	2001–2002	2003–2004
(Emergency Department visits per 100,000 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
All initial injury visits^b	—	—	—	129.0	142.7
Leading causes of injury visits^c
Cut or pierced from instrument or object	12.2	9.7	12.1	6.5	7.4
Fall	47.2	39.2	48.2	35.0	49.3
Motor vehicle traffic	6.2	8.1	6.9	6.5	7.4
Natural or environmental factors^d	9.9	9.0	14.5	7.4	10.6
Overexertion	1.6	4.3	3.0	1.8	2.2
Poisoning	9.8	8.3	7.8	4.9	8.1
Struck by/against an object or person	24.9	38.2	29.4	28.2	20.5
Ages 5–14
All injury visits^a	126.8	119.8	122.9	118.1	120.5
All initial injury visits^b	—	—	—	110.0	114.3
Leading causes of injury visits^c
Cut or pierced from instrument or object	10.9	10.7	8.4	7.8	7.6
Fall	31.3	27.0	27.0	27.6	28.0
Motor vehicle traffic	10.1	8.3	10.1	7.7	7.9
Natural or environmental factors^d	8.5	6.2	5.7	5.5	8.1
Overexertion	2.4	2.3	2.8	3.6	3.8
Poisoning	1.6	1.1	1.6	1.4	1.7
Struck by/against an object or person	21.1	27.8	30.2	26.9	25.3
— 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 From 2001–2004, 94 percent of injury-related emergency department visits for children ages 1–4 and 95 percent of injury-related emergency department visits for children ages 5–14 were for a first visit.
^c Data for 2001–2002 and 2003–2004 are for initial visits only.
^d Insect or animal bites accounted for the majority of emergency department visits caused by natural or environmental factors.
SOURCE: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey.