ArticlePloS one2022
E-scooter related injuries: Using natural language processing to rapidly search 36 million medical notes.
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- Maxillofacial fractures associated with electric scooter trauma: a cohort study from a national level I trauma center.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2026Observational
- E-scooter riders sustain more head and internal injuries than motorcyclists and cyclists in England and Wales.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Severe Injuries in E-Scooter Accidents: An Evaluation of Data From the TraumaRegister DGU.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2025Observational
- Unconventional mobility, conventional trauma: a comparative analysis of e-scooter-related fractures.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2024Article
- Popular but precarious: low helmet use among shared micromobility program riders in San Francisco.Frontiers in public health · 2024Observational
- Using e-scooters: An easy way to get home or a nightmare? An orthopedic perspective on e-scooter accidents.Ulusal travma ve acil cerrahi dergisi = Turkish journal of trauma & emergency surgery : TJTES · 2023Article
- Comparison of Injuries Associated With Electric Scooters, Motorbikes, and Bicycles in France, 2019-2022.JAMA network open · 2023Article
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- Electric scooter-related triple cervical artery dissection.Radiology case reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundShareable e-scooters have become popular, but injuries to riders and bystanders have not been well characterized. The goal of this study was to describe e-scooter injuries and estimate the rate of injury per e-scooter trip. METHODS AND
findingsRetrospective review of patients presenting to 180 clinics and 2 hospitals in greater Los Angeles between January 1, 2014 and May 14, 2020. Injuries were identified using a natural language processing (NLP) algorithm not previously used to identify injuries, tallied, and described along with required healthcare resources. We combine these tallies with municipal data on scooter use to report a monthly utilization-corrected rate of e-scooter injuries. We searched 36 million clinical notes. Our NLP algorithm correctly classified 92% of notes in the testing set compared with the gold standard of investigator review. In total, we identified 1,354 people injured by e-scooters; 30% were seen in more than one clinical setting (e.g., emergency department and a follow-up outpatient visit), 29% required advanced imaging, 6% required inpatient admission, and 2 died. We estimate 115 injuries per million e-scooter trips were treated in our health system.
conclusionsOur observed e-scooter injury rate is likely an underestimate, but is similar to that previously reported for motorcycles. However, the comparative severity of injuries is unknown. Our methodology may prove useful to study other clinical conditions not identifiable by existing diagnostic systems.
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