Pediatric Sports Injury Hospitalizations in the US, 2014-2023

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System data was used to analyze pediatric sports injury hospitalizations across 18 sports from 2014 to 2023. The dataset includes an estimated 186,695 admissions, with football, basketball, and soccer accounting for the highest counts, while gymnastics had the highest admission rate. It supports analysis of temporal trends and risk factors like sex and day of injury.

Use Cases

• Identifying high-risk sports for targeted prevention based on admission counts and rates.
• Analyzing temporal trends in hospitalization rates over a 10-year period.
• Modeling risk factors for severe injury using variables like age, sex, race, and day of week.
• Comparing injury patterns and admission causes, such as upper extremity fractures in gymnastics.

Strengths

• Covers a 10-year time range (2014-2023) from a national surveillance system.
• Includes national estimates for 186,695 admissions across 18 distinct sports.
• Provides specific admission rates and odds ratios for risk factors like male sex (OR 1.64).

Limitations

• Column names and a precise row count are not provided, limiting understanding of the data structure.
• The dataset size (32,075) is given, but its relationship to the estimated 186,695 admissions is unclear.
• Relies on emergency department presentation data, which may not capture all sports injuries.

Provenance

Source

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS)

Collection Method

Query of a national injury surveillance database for emergency department cases.

Time Range

2014 to 2023

Freshness

2026-03-19

Geography

United States