ArticlePediatric surgery international2025
Geographic analysis and socioeconomic factors associated with pediatric window fall injuries in Utah: a nine-year retrospective study.
Article in Pediatric surgery international, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
11 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
introductionFalls from windows are a source of significant morbidity and mortality among pediatric trauma patients. Public health initiatives to prevent these injuries are crucial, but to appropriately deploy these initiatives, understanding where to target these interventions is critical. The purpose of this study was to identify geographic locations of these injuries to develop targeted injury prevention strategies.
methodsThis study conducted a retrospective analysis of all window fall injuries that presented to Utah's only Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center from 2015 to 2024. A geographic analysis was performed using ArcGIS mapping software, and linear and logistic regression models were employed to examine the relationships between patient characteristics and Area Deprivation Index (ADI) values.
resultsA total of 223 window fall injuries were identified over the 9-year study period. The median age at presentation was 3.8 [2.8-5.2] years. Most patients were male (58%) and lived in single-family homes (58%). The median injury severity score was 9 [2-14], and 37% of patients had an Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) score of greater than 3, indicating a significant injury, for the head and neck region. There was no relationship between state or national ADI and injury severity score, length of stay, Glasgow coma scale, or intensive care unit admission. Younger patients were more likely to live in a more disadvantaged neighborhood based on state ADI (p = 0.03), but not based on national ADI (p = 0.06).
conclusionsThe geographic distribution and patient injury characteristics of window fall injuries from the state of Utah over a 9-year period were not correlated with state or national ADI, contrary to what has been seen in other locations. From these data, key communities where these injuries have been most common have been identified and will be the focus of targeted prevention strategies moving forward.
Indexed as
Identifiers
41175187What 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.