PHY7.A: Adolescent injury and mortality: Emergency department visit rates for adolescents ages 15–19 by leading causes of injury visits, 1995

PHY7.A: Adolescent injury and mortality: Emergency department visit rates for adolescents ages 15–19 by leading causes of injury visits, 1995–2005

Characteristic	1995–1996	1997–1998	1999–2000	2001–2002	2003–2004	2005
(Emergency department visits per 1,000 youth ages 15–19)
All injury visits^a	179.8	170.9	178.4	154.4	160.7	165.6
All initial injury visits^b	—	—	—	141.5	148.2	150.5
Leading causes of injury visits^c
Cut or pierced from instrument or object	16.2	18.2	18.0	12.4	12.4	13.5
Unintentional	14.0	15.2	15.6	11.0	11.1	11.5
Fall	24.8	20.6	21.1	16.0	20.4	26.7
Motor vehicle traffic^d	32.9	32.3	32.7	26.0	24.6	22.9
Natural or environmental factors^e	5.6	4.4	7.1	5.2	6.9	5.5
Overexertion	7.4	4.8	7.3	5.9	7.0	7.4
Poisoning	4.3	5.9	4.3	5.7	6.4	4.5
Unintentional	2.9	3.0	1.8	3.3	2.3	*
Self-inflicted	1.4	2.0	2.2	2.0	3.4	*
Struck by/against an object or person	35.1	44.3	41.4	34.8	32.6	28.1
Unintentional	25.3	37.2	32.1	27.2	24.9	19.7
Assault	9.7	6.9	9.2	7.5	7.7	8.2
— Not available.
* Estimates are considered unreliable (relative standard error greater than 30 percent).
^a Any emergency department visit where there is a valid first-listed injury diagnosis code or a valid first-listed external cause code on the emergency department discharge record.
^b From 2001–2005 an average of 92 percent of emergency department visits were for a first visit.
^c Data for 2001–2005 are for initial visits only.
^d All motor vehicle traffic (MVT) visits were unintentional injury visits except in 1997–1998, when there were 2,259 emergency department visits for MVT assaults (0.18 percent of all MVT visits) and in 2003–2004, when there were 2,281 visits for MVT assaults (0.2 percent of all MVT visits).
^e Insect or animal bites accounted for the majority of emergency department visits caused by natural or environmental factors.
SOURCE: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey.