RT Book, Section
A1 Meagher, Ashley D.
A1 Zar zaur, Ben L.
A2 Feliciano, David V.
A2 Mattox, Kenneth L.
A2 Moore, Ernest E.
SR Print(0)
ID 1175129963
T1 Epidemiology
T2 Trauma, 9e
YR 2020
FD 2020
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260143348
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1175129963
RD 2024/04/19
AB KEY  POINTSInjuries  are  the  leading  cause  of  death  for  Americans  age  1  to  44  years  and  the  third  leading  cause  of  death  overall.Disease  of  injury  has  a  bimodal  age  distribution  of  mortality,  with  peaks  for  those  16  to  40  years  old  and  for  those  over  65  years  old.Injury  deaths  have  risen  in  the  United  States  over  the  past  2  decades,  from  52  per  100,000  in  2000  to  72  per  100,000  in  2016.The  International  Classification  of  Diseases,  Tenth  Revision,  Clinical  Modification  external  cause  of  injury  code  is  known  as  an  E-code  and  is  used  when  a  patient  presents  to  a  health  care  provider  with  an  injury.Deaths  from  drug  overdose  now  account  for  27.4%  of  injury-related  deaths  in  the  United  States,  more  than  from  motor  vehicle  collisions.Approximately  50%  of  all  traffic  fatalities  (driver,  occupant,  bicyclist,  or  pedestrian)  have  been  found  to  have  a  blood  alcohol  concentration  of  0.08  g/dL  or  greater.Firearm-related  mortality  is  eight  times  higher  in  the  United  States  than  in  other  high-income  countries  in  the  world.