ArticleMMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report2014
Vital signs: restraint use and motor vehicle occupant death rates among children aged 0-12 years - United States, 2002-2011.
Article in MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
28 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pilot Trial of an Emergency Department-based Intervention to Promote Child Passenger Safety Best Practices.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2019Trial
- Trends in pediatric traumatic brain injury-related mortality in the United States from 1999 to 2024: a retrospective cross-sectional analysis.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2026Article
- Trends in transport injuries burden and risk factors among children under 14 years old in China: 1990-2019.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Childhood opportunity and appropriate use of child safety restraints in motor vehicle collisions.World journal of pediatric surgery · 2024Article
- Child Safety Seat‒Use Behavior Among Parents of Newborns: A Trans-Theoretical Model‒Guided Intervention in Shantou, China, 2021.American journal of public health · 2023Article
- Traffic Accidents in Children and Adolescents: A Complex Orthopedic and Medico-Legal Approach.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Urban and Rural Child Deaths from Motor Vehicle Crashes: United States, 2015-2019.The Journal of pediatrics · 2022Article
- "Tiny Cargo, Big Deal! Abróchame Bien, Cuídame Bien", an emergency department-based intervention to promote child passenger safety: Protocol for an adaptive randomized trial among caregivers of 6-month through 10-year-old children.Contemporary clinical trials · 2022Article
- Effect of parental supervision of infants at age 4 to 6 months on injuries at age 4 to 12 months.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Factors affecting road safety compliance in a low- and middle-income country: An observational study from Lebanon.PLOS global public health · 2022Article
- Trends in pediatric passenger restraint use by rurality and age in Iowa, 2006-2019.Traffic injury prevention · 2022Observational
- Dying Young in the United States: What's Driving High Death Rates Among Americans Under Age 25 and What Can Be Done?Population bulletin · 2022Article
- Use of child safety seats and booster seats in the United States: A comparison of parent/caregiver-reported and observed use estimates.Journal of safety research · 2021Article
- Factors Affecting Death and Severe Injury in Child Motor Vehicle Passengers.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Measuring the effectiveness of a car seat program in an urban, level one pediatric trauma center.Injury epidemiology · 2021Article
- An Adapted Child Safety Seat Hassles Score Is Associated With Suboptimal Child Passenger Safety Behaviors Among Parents.Academic pediatrics · 2021Article
- Epidemiological Characteristics of Road Traffic Injuries Involving Children in Three Central American Countries, 2012-2015.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Restraint Factors and Child Passenger Deaths in New South Wales, Australia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Preventing injuries must be a priority to prevent disease in the twenty-first century.Pediatric research · 2020Review
- Restraint use and injury in forward and rear-facing infants and toddlers involved in a fatal motor vehicle crash on a U. S. Roadway.Injury epidemiology · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundMotor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death among children in the United States. Age- and size-appropriate child restraint use is the most effective method for reducing these deaths.
methodsCDC analyzed 2002–2011 data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System to determine the number and rate of motor-vehicle occupant deaths, and the proportion of unrestrained child deaths among children aged <1 year, 1–3 years , 4–7 years, 8–12 years, and for all children aged 0–12 years. Age group–specific death rates and proportions of unrestrained child motor vehicle deaths for 2009–2010 were further stratified by race/ethnicity.
resultsMotor vehicle occupant death rates for children declined significantly from 2002 to 2011. However, one third (33%) of children who died in 2011 were unrestrained. Compared with white children for 2009–2010, black children had significantly higher death rates, and black and Hispanic children both had significantly higher proportions of unrestrained child deaths.
conclusionsMotor vehicle occupant deaths among children in the United States have declined in the past decade, but more deaths could be prevented if restraints were always used. IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH: Effective interventions, including child passenger restraint laws (with child safety seat/ booster seat coverage through at least age 8 years) and child safety seat distribution plus education programs, can increase restraint use and reduce child motor vehicle deaths.
Indexed as
Identifiers
24500292PMC4584642W1917932196What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.