Most Frequently Ingested Items by Children Younger than Six Years (IMAGE)

Nationwide Children's Hospital

Most Frequently Ingested Items by Children Younger than Six Years

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A new study from researchers in the Center for Injury Research and Policy and the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at Nationwide Children's Hospital analyzed data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) for children younger than six years who were treated in a US emergency department due to concern of a foreign body ingestion from 1995 through 2015.

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