Violence Accounts for 10% of School Injuries

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Violence may account for about 10 percent of the injuries U.S. children receive at school, according to a new study that looked at the causes of children's visits to hospital emergency rooms.

The study is the first of its kind to report such a national estimate.

The researchers estimated that of the 7.39 million visits made to emergency departments by children ages 5 to 19 for school-related injuries, about 736,000 injuries were reported as intentional.

"This number is alarmingly high, especially when you consider that such a substantial number of intentional injuries are occurring in the school setting, where safety measures are already in place," said study researcher Dr. Siraj Amanullah, a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence, R.I.

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