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Trends in US pediatric drowning hospitalizations, 1993-2008Stephen M Bowman
Center for Injury Research and Policy, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Pediatrics 129:275-81. 2012..Although a decline in overall fatal drowning deaths among children has been noted, national trends and disparities in pediatric drowning hospitalizations have not been reported...
Variability in pediatric splenic injury care: results of a national survey of general surgeonsStephen M Bowman
Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, USA
Arch Surg 145:1048-53. 2010..Little attention has been given to physician factors associated with management differences...
Trends in hospitalisations associated with paediatric burnsStephen M Bowman
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 1996, USA
Inj Prev 17:166-70. 2011..In the United States, burns are the third leading cause of unintentional injury death in children aged 1-14 years, accounting for more than 600 deaths per year in children aged 0-19 years...
Still unsafe, still in use: ongoing epidemic of all-terrain vehicle injury hospitalizations among childrenStephen M Bowman
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Injury Research and Policy, Baltimore, Maryland 212 5 1996, USA
J Trauma 69:1344-9. 2010..We identify pediatric hospitalization trends for ATV injuries, provide national benchmarks, and discuss policy and prevention implications...
Disparities in hospital outcomes for injured people with epilepsy/seizuresStephen M Bowman
Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas 72202 3591, USA
Epilepsia 51:862-7. 2010..We compared in-hospital outcomes of injured patients with epilepsy/seizures with patients without epilepsy/seizures and tested the hypothesis that injured people with epilepsy have worse outcomes...
Association between helicopter vs ground emergency medical services and survival for adults with major traumaSamuel M Galvagno
Division of Trauma Anesthesiology, Program in Trauma, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland Medical Center, S8B05, 22 South Greene St, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
JAMA 307:1602-10. 2012..Because helicopter services are a limited and expensive resource, a methodologically rigorous investigation of its effectiveness compared with ground emergency medical services is warranted...
Trends in hospitalizations associated with pediatric traumatic brain injuriesStephen M Bowman
Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas 72202 3591, USA
Pediatrics 122:988-93. 2008..The goals were to describe trends in pediatric traumatic brain injury hospitalizations in the United States and to provide national benchmarks for state and regional comparisons...
Disparities in injury death location for people with epilepsy/seizuresStephen M Bowman
Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
Epilepsy Behav 17:369-72. 2010....
Assessing external cause of injury coding accuracy for transport injury hospitalizationsStephen M Bowman
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Perspect Health Inf Manag 8:1c. 2011..4 percent of cases identified in trauma registry records. Efforts should focus on systematically improving E-code accuracy and detail through training, education, and informatics such as automated data linkages to trauma registries...
'It was a freak accident': an analysis of the labelling of injury events in the US pressKatherine C Smith
Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Inj Prev 18:38-43. 2012..This analysis is intended to contribute to the ongoing consideration of lay conceptualisation of injuries as 'accidents'...
Rural trauma: is trauma designation associated with better hospital outcomes?Stephen M Bowman
Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72202 3591, USA
J Rural Health 24:263-8. 2008..While trauma designation has been associated with lower risk of death in large urban settings, relatively little attention has been given to this issue in small rural hospitals...
The role of hospital profit status in pediatric spleen injury managementStephen M Bowman
Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas 72202 3591, USA
Med Care 46:331-8. 2008..Evidence suggests that over 90% of pediatric splenic injuries can be successfully managed nonoperatively. Although pediatric hospitals have rapidly adopted nonoperative management, variability exists among other types of hospitals...
