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Rosenkranz, K.M. and Sheridan, R.L. (2003) "Trauma to adult bicyclists: a growing problem in the urban environment"

Rosenkranz, K.M. and Sheridan, R.L. (2003) "Trauma to adult bicyclists: a growing problem in the urban environment", Injury, Volume 34, Issue 11, November 2003, Pages 825-829.  Research paper available for purchase from Science Direct
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The proportion of adults involved in serious bicycle accidents has increased in the last two decades. The majority of the bicycle injury prevention efforts, however, are directed toward child riders. The authors performed a retrospective review of injury statistics from the Massachusetts Hospital Discharge Data Set, 1994–1999, the Massachusetts Emergency Department Injury Surveillance System, 1999, and the trauma registry of an Urban Level I Trauma Centre, 1993–2000. Massachusetts’s state-wide injury data reveals a 30% increase in hospital charges between 1994 and 1999 for adults following bicycle falls and collisions with concomitant stability in the charges for children.