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Body Region
Extremity injuries accounted for the greatest proportion of injuries classified by body region ranging from 48% in hospitals to 50% in emergency departments to 63% reported in a household survey that asks about medically-attended injuries. Source: CDC/NCHSBergen G,Chen LH, Warner M, Fingerhut LA. Injury in the United States: 2007. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2008


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Dawn Comstock
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Dawn Comstock is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Injury Research and Policy, Nationwide Children's Hospital and the Ohio State University, College of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics and College of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology. 


She has experience working in public health at both the national and state level as well as in academia.  She has co-authored over 40 peer-reviewed manuscripts on injury epidemiology and injury prevention and has participated in over 30 national and international presentations on these topics.  Her main research interests are sports and recreation injury surveillance, epidemiology, and prevention.