Pediatric clavicle fractures may be increasing in severity

Key takeaways:

Pediatric clavicle fractures may be increasing in severity, despite no increases in annual injury incidence.

Hospital admissions for pediatric clavicle fractures significantly increased from 2014 to 2023.

Hospital admissions for pediatric clavicle fractures more than doubled from 2014 to 2023 despite no significant trend in annual injury incidence, according to published results.

“While clavicle fracture rates in children have stayed stable, hospitalizations have more than doubled, suggesting that injuries are becoming more severe,” Charu Jain, BA , an MD candidate in the department of orthopedic surgery at Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine, told Healio.

Jain and colleagues used data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System to analyze epidemiol