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Clinical Pediatrics Publishes CIRP Findings on Playground Equipment-Related Injuries |
While children’s activities on playgrounds can benefit their psychosocial and physical development as well as combat problems such as childhood obesity, these activities are not risk-free. CIRP found that more than 213,000 children under 18 years of age are treated each year in hospital emergency departments in the United States for playground-related injuries.
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| The Center for Injury Research & Policy proudly announces its new role as a CDC Injury Center |
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has selected the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital to become the agency's newest Injury Control Research Center (ICRC). It is the first CDC Injury Control Research Center to focus on pediatric injury research. With this designation, the Center for Injury Research and Policy becomes the 13th Injury Control Research Center funded by the CDC.
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Learn more about our center. Click here for our center fact sheet.
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| First National Study to Examine Recreational and Competitive Diving-Related Injuries |
Not only are competitive divers at risk for injury, but recreational divers are also being treated in emergency departments for diving-related injuries.
A new study conducted by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy (CIRP) of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, found that an estimated 111,000 diving-related injuries to persons under the age of 19 were treated in emergency departments from 1990 through 2006.
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To listen to the audio news release, please click here.
For a diving safety fact sheet from the Center for Injury Research and Policy, click here. | | |
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| Player-to-Player Contact Source for High School Soccer Concussions |
Player-to-player contact is the leading cause of high school-related injury. And although overall injury rates for both genders were similar, injury diagnosis, body site, severity and mechanism differed between males and females and between practice and competition.
For more on this comprehensive study, click here for the complete press release.
Click here to learn more about the RIO™ (Reporting Information Online) surveillance system. | | |
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| First National Study to Examine Golf Cart-Related Injuries |
The popularity of golf carts has skyrocketed in recent years, unfortunately, so have the number of golf cartrelated injuries. According to the study there were an estimated 148,000 golf cart-related injuries between 1990 and 2006. As golf carts have become faster and more powerful, they are no longer limited to use on the golf course.
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