A national analysis of pediatric falls from a building

•Building falls are a common cause of injury for children under 12 years old.•Those in urban areas more often experienced a building fall.•Spring and summer were associated with higher odds of a building fall.•Younger children more often had skull and face fractures, while older children more often...

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Published in:Injury 2021-04, Vol.52 (4), p.831-836
Main Authors: McLoughlin, Robert J., Hazeltine, Max D., Durgin, Jonathan, Schmidt, Alexander, Hirsh, Michael P., Cleary, Muriel A., Aidlen, Jeremy T.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Falls
Injury prevention
Pediatric trauma
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Summary:•Building falls are a common cause of injury for children under 12 years old.•Those in urban areas more often experienced a building fall.•Spring and summer were associated with higher odds of a building fall.•Younger children more often had skull and face fractures, while older children more often had extremity fractures. Falls remain the leading cause of unintentional pediatric trauma in the United States. Identifying risk factors for pediatric building falls would influence public health policy. We hypothesized that building falls disproportionately affect low income communities. We performed a cross-sectional analysis of the Kids’ Inpatient Database for years 2006, 2009, and 2012. We identified cases (age
ISSN:0020-1383
1879-0267
DOI:10.1016/j.injury.2020.10.044