Citation

Namiri NK, Lui H, Tangney T, Allen IE, Cohen AJ, Breyer BN. JAMA Surg. 2020; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, American Medical Association)

DOI

10.1001/jamasurg.2019.5423

PMID

31913417

Abstract

Electric scooters (e-scooters) are a novel, rapid, and convenient mode of transportation with increasing accessibility across the United States.1 E-scooter use may decrease traffic congestion and increase public transit use.2 Expansion of e-scooters in dense, high-traffic urban areas will affect rider injury in unknown ways and lead to new policies already implemented by some major cities.3 With the influx of e-scooter availability in urban areas, particularly in the past year,3 we sought to investigate trends of injury and hospital admission.

Language: en