E-scooter related injuries: Using natural language processing to rapidly search 36 million medical notes.

Journal: PloS one
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Shareable e-scooters have become popular, but injuries to riders and bystanders have not been well characterized. The goal of this study was to describe e-scooter injuries and estimate the rate of injury per e-scooter trip.

Authors

  • Kimon L H Ioannides
    Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco-Fresno Medical Education Program, Fresno, CA, United States of America.
  • Pin-Chieh Wang
    Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
  • Kamran Kowsari
    Systems and Information Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
  • Vu Vu
    Office of Health Informatics and Analytics, UCLA Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.
  • Noah Kojima
    Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.
  • Dayna Clayton
    Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.
  • Charles Liu
    Stanford Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection (ITI), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
  • Tarak K Trivedi
    Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.
  • David L Schriger
    Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America.
  • Joann G Elmore
    Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle.