Electric Scooter Injuries and Hospital Admissions in the United States, 2014-2018

Affiliations

¹ Department of Urology, University of California, San Francisco.
² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco.

Nikan K Namiri et al. JAMA Surg. 2020.

. 2020 Apr 1;155(4):357-359.

doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2019.5423.

¹ Department of Urology, University of California, San Francisco.
² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco.

Abstract

This study investigates trends of injury and hospital admission associated with electric scooter use.

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.

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