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. 2017 Nov 21;318(19):1931-1933.
doi: 10.1001/jama.2017.13317.

Trends in Emergency Department Visits for Nonfatal Self-inflicted Injuries Among Youth Aged 10 to 24 Years in the United States, 2001-2015

Melissa C Mercado  1 , Kristin Holland  1 , Ruth W Leemis  1 , Deborah M Stone  1 , Jing Wang  1
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Trends in Emergency Department Visits for Nonfatal Self-inflicted Injuries Among Youth Aged 10 to 24 Years in the United States, 2001-2015

Melissa C Mercado et al. JAMA. .

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Conflict of Interest Disclosures: All authors have completed and submitted the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest and none were reported.

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Figure. Non-fatal Self-Inflicted Injury Emergency Department Visits among Youth aged 10–24 Years — United States, 2001–2015
APC=Annual Percentage Change; CI=Confidence Intervals Dotted lines indicate observed rates and solid lines indicate modeled rates. The error bars represent the standard errors of the observed rates. Only the significant trends were labeled with APC.
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Figure. Non-fatal Self-Inflicted Injury Emergency Department Visits among Youth aged 10–24 Years — United States, 2001–2015
APC=Annual Percentage Change; CI=Confidence Intervals Dotted lines indicate observed rates and solid lines indicate modeled rates. The error bars represent the standard errors of the observed rates. Only the significant trends were labeled with APC.
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