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Study indicates number of Emergency Room visits for computer-related injuries have increased

Posted on Jul 07, 2009

In the New York Times (7/7, D7) Vital Signs column, Nicholas Bakalar writes, "Researchers, in a study in the July issue of The American Journal of Preventive Medicine, estimate that in 2006 there were 9,279 emergency" department [ED] "visits for computer-related injuries, up from 1,267 in 1994." For the study, researchers analyzed "data...from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, which is managed by the Consumer Product Safety Commission." Data indicate that "over the 13-year study period, more than 78,000 people ages one month to 89 years were treated in [EDs] for acute computer-related injuries." The increase "is more than double the increase in home computer ownership in those years." Notably, "more than half of the injuries happened when people were moving their computers, and the monitor was the part most commonly involved."

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