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Yu J, Mei L, Wang Y, Feng G, Zeng Y, Xu X, Wang X, Liu J. Hospitalization information and burden of pediatric inpatients in transport accidents. BMC Public Health 2024; 24:1446. [PMID: 38816812 PMCID: PMC11137972 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-024-18891-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2023] [Accepted: 05/20/2024] [Indexed: 06/01/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Transport accidents are one of the leading causes of child morbidity and mortality worldwide and represent a significant public health burden. This study aimed to investigate the hospitalization information and burden of pediatric inpatients in transport accidents in China. METHODS In this study, we collected the cover page of the medical records of pediatric inpatients in transport accidents using the Futang Research Center of Pediatric Development (FRCPD) database from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2021. Then, we extracted the epidemiological characteristics, including demographic characteristics, cases distribution, disease information, and hospitalization burden. RESULTS Among 36,455 included inpatients, males, aged 1-3 years, East China, July were dominant in different subgroups. In transport accidents, pedestrians were the most frequently type of injury (65.69%). Of all known lesions, craniocerebral/nerve injury was the more common results in pediatric inpatients in transport accidents (33.93%). In addition to pedal cyclists more susceptible to sport system injury, other types of injured person with transport accidents were mainly craniocerebral/nerve injury. In terms of the type of discharge, occupant of heavy transport vehicle or bus and people with craniocerebral/nerve injury had the highest mortality rate after hospitalization in all type and lesion of injured person groups, respectively. The largest hospitalization burden in the type of injured person was occupant of heavy transport vehicle or bus. CONCLUSIONS This study revealed that epidemiological characteristics and the main factor influencing the hospitalization information and burden of children with traffic accidents in China.
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- Jing Yu
- Department of Burn and Plastic Surgery, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, 56 Nanlishi Rd, Xicheng, Beijing, 100045, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Surgery, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing, 100045, China
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- Department of Burn and Plastic Surgery, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, 56 Nanlishi Rd, Xicheng, Beijing, 100045, China
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- Big Data Center, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, 56 Nanlishi Rd, Xicheng, Beijing, 100045, China
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- Medical Record Management Office, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing, 100045, China
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- Information Center, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing, 100045, China
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- Big Data Center, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, 56 Nanlishi Rd, Xicheng, Beijing, 100045, China.
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- Department of Burn and Plastic Surgery, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, 56 Nanlishi Rd, Xicheng, Beijing, 100045, China.
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Kumar V, Barik S, Raj V, Varshney S. Prevention of "bygone futures" due to road traffic injuries in children. Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg 2023:10.1007/s00068-023-02378-7. [PMID: 37870567 DOI: 10.1007/s00068-023-02378-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2023] [Accepted: 10/05/2023] [Indexed: 10/24/2023]
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Road traffic injuries remain one of the common and leading causes of death among children and adolescents till the age of 19 years. Road safety is important for children since their physical activity, active travel, independence and development are largely affected by it. Solutions for road safety with benefits for people as well as an economy exist which should be implemented effectively and efficiently. These solutions which combine engineering, legislation and behavioural interventions should be implemented in an integrated Safe Systems Approach. The future of the children must be safeguarded from these injuries and every effort towards it being converted into "bygone figures" must be done diligently and honestly. The various risk factors and interventions possibly explained in this review article shall help in better understanding of the causes and possible guidelines at a policy level to prevent road traffic injuries in children.
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- Vishal Kumar
- Orthopedics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Deoghar, India
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- Orthopedics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Deoghar, India.
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- Orthopedics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Deoghar, India
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- Orthopedics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Deoghar, India
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Yu X, Wang Y, He C, Kang L, Miao L, Wu Y, Yang S, Zhu J, Liang J, Li Q, Dai L, Li X, Deng K, Tao J. The trend of unintentional injury-related mortality among children aged under-five years in China, 2010-2020: a retrospective analysis from a national surveillance system. BMC Public Health 2023; 23:673. [PMID: 37041562 PMCID: PMC10088152 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-023-15546-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2021] [Accepted: 03/28/2023] [Indexed: 04/13/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND In this study, we estimated the trend of unintentional injury mortality among children aged under-five years in China during 2010-2020. METHODS Data were obtained from China's Under 5 Child Mortality Surveillance System (U5CMSS). The total unintentional injury mortality and all specific-causes unintentional injury mortality was calculated, annual numbers of deaths and live births were adjusted by a 3-year moving average under-reporting rate. The Poisson regression model and the Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel method were used to calculate the average annual decline rate (AADR) and the adjusted relative risk (aRR) of the unintentional injury mortality. RESULTS In 2010-2020, a total of 7,925 unintentional injury-related deaths were reported in U5CMSS, accounting for 18.7% of all reported deaths. The overall proportion of unintentional injury-related deaths to total under-five children deaths has increased from 15.2% to 2010 to 23.8% in 2020 (χ2 = 227.0, p < 0.001), the unintentional injury mortality significantly decreased from 249.3 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2010 to 178.8 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2020, with an AADR 3.7% (95%CI 3.1-4.4). The unintentional injury mortality rate decreased from 2010 to 2020 in both urban (from 68.1 to 59.7 per 100,000 live births) and rural (from 323.1 to 230.0 per 100,000 live births) areas (urban: χ2 = 3.1, p < 0.08; rural: χ2 = 113.5, p < 0.001). The annual rates of decline in rural areas and urban areas were 4.2% (95%CI 3.4-4.9) and 1.5% (95%CI 0.1-3.3), respectively. The leading causes of unintentional injury mortality were suffocation (2,611, 32.9%), drowning (2,398, 30.3%), and traffic injury (1,428, 12.8%) in 2010-2020. The cause-specific of unintentional injury mortality rates decreased with varying AADRs in 2010-2020, except for traffic injury. The composition of unintentional injury-related deaths also varied by age group. Suffocation was the leading cause in infants, drowning and traffic injury were the leading causes in children aged 1-4 years. Suffocation and poisoning has high incidence in October to March and drowning has high in June to August. CONCLUSION The unintentional injury mortality rate of children aged under-five years decreased significantly from 2010 to 2020 in China, but great inequity exists in unintentional injury mortality in urban and rural areas. Unintentional injuries are still an important public health problem affecting the health of Chinese children. Effective strategies should be strengthened to reduce unintentional injury in children and these policies and programmes should be targeted to more specific populations, such as rural areas and males.
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- Xue Yu
- West China Second University Hospital, National Office for Maternal and Child Health Surveillance of China, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- West China Second University Hospital, National Office for Maternal and Child Health Surveillance of China, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- West China Second University Hospital, National Office for Maternal and Child Health Surveillance of China, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- West China Second University Hospital, National Office for Maternal and Child Health Surveillance of China, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- West China Second University Hospital, National Office for Maternal and Child Health Surveillance of China, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Department of pediatrics, Sichuan Zhongjiang County People's Hospital, Deyang, Sichuan, China
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- Mianyang Youxian maternal and child health care hospital, Mianyang, Sichuan, China
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- West China Second University Hospital, National Office for Maternal and Child Health Surveillance of China, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
- Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Diseases of Women and Children of the Ministry of Education, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Sichuan, China
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- West China Second University Hospital, National Office for Maternal and Child Health Surveillance of China, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- West China Second University Hospital, National Office for Maternal and Child Health Surveillance of China, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- West China Second University Hospital, National Office for Maternal and Child Health Surveillance of China, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- West China Second University Hospital, National Office for Maternal and Child Health Surveillance of China, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- West China Second University Hospital, National Office for Maternal and Child Health Surveillance of China, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
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- West China Second University Hospital, National Office for Maternal and Child Health Surveillance of China, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
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