Study: E-scooter injury rate in LA surpasses national rate for motorcycles
Joann G. Elmore, MD, MPH, on an increased trend of electric scooters injuries
Searching through millions of records and UCLA Health data from 2014-2020, Elmore and her team found that more than 1,000 patients had been seen for injuries sustained on electric scooters.
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Citation: Ioannides KLH, Wang PC, Kowsari K, Vu V, Kojima N, Clayton D, Liu C, Trivedi TK, Schriger DL, Elmore JG. E-scooter related injuries: Using natural language processing to rapidly search 36 million medical notes. PLoS One. 2022 Apr 6;17(4):e0266097. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266097. PMID: 35385532; PMCID: PMC8985928.