Ocular complaints represent a sizeable burden to emergency departments, accounting for an estimated 2.4 million ED visits annually. We sought to characterise visits associated with ocular injury and examine factors contributing to inpatient admission.We searched the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample between 2006 and 2011 and identified cases in which patients presented with a primary or secondary diagnosis of ocular trauma. We described these cases according to age, sex, external mechanism of injury, payer status, and identified relationships between these variables. Logistic regression models were employed to identify crude and adjusted relative odds of admission to inpatient status based on patient demographics, mechanism of injury, payer status, and the existence of multiple injuries.Between 2006 and 2011, a total of 5541,434 visits were made to EDs in the United States with a primary or other diagnosis of ocular trauma; ocular trauma was the primary diagnosis in 77.9

作者：R Sterling, Haring；Joseph K, Canner；Adil H, Haider；Eric B, Schneider

来源：Injury 2016 年 47卷 1期