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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acad Emerg Med. 2014 Dec;21(12):1459–1468. doi: 10.1111/acem.12548

Table 1.

Prevalence and Incidence of Injury in Massachusetts Women of Reproductive Age, 2002–2008 by SUD, Among 4,839,706 ED visits

Number (%) of Women With
E-code Indicating Injury
Mean (±SD) Number of
Injuries (95% CI)


Variable SUD-positive SUD-negative SUD-positive SUD-negative
All E-coded injury (n = 800,763) 82,811 (65.1) 717,952 (44.8) 2.27 (4.1)
(2.25–2.29)
0.73 (1.3)
(0.73–0.73)
Any of the four specified marker injuries (n = 437,501) 62,691 (49.3) 374,810 (23.4) 0.72 (0.9)
(0.72–0.73)
0.26 (0.5)
(0.26–0.26)
Motor vehicle injuries (n = 228,721) 28,650 (22.5) 200,071 (12.5) 0.34 (0.8)
(0.34–0.35)
0.15 (0.5)
(0.15–0.15)
Falls (n = 209,924) 33,855 (26.6) 176,069 (11.0) 0.52 (1.5)
(0.51–0.53)
0.13 (0.1)
(0.13–0.14)
Suicide/self-inflicted injury (n = 27,690) 14,645 (11.5) 13,045 (0.8) 0.19 (0.9)
(0.18–0.19)
0.01 (0.2)
(0.01–0.01)
Homicide/purposeful injury (n = 45,522) 14,636 (11.5) 30,886 (1.9) 0.18 (0.7)
(0.17–0.18)
0.02 (0.2)
(0.02–0.02)

SUD = substance use disorder.