• J Emerg Med · Jun 2022

    All-Terrain Vehicle-Related Emergency Department Visits: Interaction of Sex and Age, NEISS, 2019.

    • R Constance Wiener, Christopher Waters, Matthew Harper, Alcinda K Trickett Shockey, and Ruchi Bhandari.
    • Department of Dental Public Health and Professional Practice, School of Dentistry, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia. Electronic address: ruchi.bhandari@hsc.wvu.edu.
    • J Emerg Med. 2022 Jun 1; 62 (6): 810819810-819.

    BackgroundEpidemiologic patterns of all-terrain vehicle (ATV)-related emergency department (ED) visits by male and female individuals may vary at different ages. To our knowledge, this has not been researched previously.ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to determine the interaction of sex and age differences in their association with ATV-related ED visits.MethodsData from the 2019 National Electronic Injury Surveillance System were extracted for ATV-related ED visits, including sex, age, race, location of crash, injured body part, and whether alcohol was involved. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression analyses were conducted. We modeled sex in separate multivariable models, adjusting for the same independent variables.ResultsThere were an estimated 95,995 (unweighted n = 1999) ATV-related ED visits. There was a significant age-by-sex interaction in the association between ATV-related ED visits vs. other ED injuries, indicating that the effect of age on ATV-related ED visits differed by sex and vice versa. Overall, male individuals were 1.7 times as likely to have an ATV-related ED visit as female individuals. In the stratified analysis for female individuals, odds were substantially greater for girls younger than 18 years (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] 2.33; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.61-3.69) and women aged 18-35 years (AOR 4.76; 95% CI 3.48-6.51) compared with woman older than 35 years. For men, odds were significant for ages 18-35 years (AOR 2.21; 95% CI 1.72-2.85) compared with men older than 35 years.ConclusionsAs newer ATVs become more powerful and faster, there is a need to know who is at greatest risk for ATV-related ED visits to develop policies and safety measures.Copyright © 2022. Published by Elsevier Inc.

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