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benchmarking.6 Trauma centers are encouraged to collect, at minimum, all of the data points listed in the NTDS criteria will vary across institutions and states.7 Trauma registry inclusion criteria for pediatric trauma patients include children who are either admitted to or ICD-10 codes indicating trauma. Trauma registry exclusion criteria for pediatric trauma patients include injuries that
are over 72 hours old without previous treatment, readmission for the same injury, and injury that is not the reason for hospital admission.
Data collected for this study included ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes, injury severity scores, injury mechanism, injury type, injury place, sex, race/ethnicity, age, date and time of injury, injury location, and playground equipment type. The diagnoses of injury were categorized for analysis. These categories included supracondylar fracture, fracture (other), concussion, contusion/abrasion, laceration, strain/ sprain, and other/unknown. Injury severity scores were categorized as mild (0-6), moderate (7-15), or severe (16 or greater). Ages were categorized as 0 to 4, 5 to 9, 10 to 14, and 15 to 18 years. Body locations were categorized as upper extremity, lower extremity, face/mouth, head, neck/torso, and unknown.
All data were de-identified prior
to analysis. Descriptive analysis was conducted using SPSS V.22 (IBM Corporation, Armonk, NY). Continuous variables are presented with means and standard deviations, while categorical variables are presented with frequencies and percentages.
This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board at the Pediatric Level 1 hospital.
FIGURE 3
Playground injury by equipment type.
FIGURE 4
Playground injury type.
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