Estimated cumulative incidence of emergent and urgent hospital admissions for unintentional falls from buildings or structures by age and race/ethnicity*
| Age (years) | Race/ethnicity | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| White | Black | Hispanic | Total† | |
| *Cumulative incidence (per 100 000 people/year) for children aged 0–18 years hospitalized for falls from buildings or structures. Data source is KID-HCUP. Incidence is for acute hospitalized injury and does not include emergency department visits that did not require hospitalization or patients who died before being hospitalized. | ||||
| †Includes other and unspecified races. | ||||
| ‡Not reported. Category has large percent unknown. | ||||
| 0–4 | 2.72 | 4.82 | 5.48 | 4.6 |
| 5–9 | 1.23 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 1.98 |
| 10–14 | 1.01 | 1.33 | 1.91 | 1.46 |
| 15–18 | 2.74 | 1.52 | 3.38 | NA‡ |
| Total | 1.87 | 2.42 | 3.37 | 2.81 |