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Proceedings from the 22nd Annual Injury Free Coalition for Kids® Conference

Forging New Frontiers: Moving Forward with Childhood Injury Prevention

• You can have your breastmilk and safe sleep too: a preliminary analysis of infant safe sleep data in a Midwestern home visiting program
  Sheena Hussain, Gina S. Lowell, Douglas R. Roehler, Kyran P. Quinlan, S. Darius Tandon, Lesley Schwartz
• Playground slide-related injuries in preschool children: increased risk of lower extremity injuries when riding on laps
  Charles A. Jennissen, Maggie Koos, Gerene Denning
• Paternal perception of infant sleep risks and safety
  Heather M. Hirsch, Samantha H. Mullins, Beverly K. Miller, Mary E. Aitken
• Characterization of children hospitalized with traumatic brain injuries after building falls
  Kirsten V. Loftus, Tara Rhine, Shari L. Wade, Wendy J. Pomerantz
• Cross sectional analysis of Chicago vs suburban Cook County suicide deaths among 10–24-year-olds in the Illinois violent death reporting system
  Ernika G. Quimby, Suzanne G. McLone, Maryann Mason, Karen Sheehan
• Gun carrying among freshmen and sophomores in Chicago, New York City and Los Angeles public schools: the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 2007–2013
  Samaa Kemal, Karen Sheehan, Joe Feinglass
• Child abuse and neglect experts’ determination of when a child being left home alone constitutes child neglect
  Charles A. Jennissen, Erin Evans, Resmiye Oral, Gerene Denning
• A quality improvement program in pediatric practices to increase tailored injury prevention counseling and assess self-reported changes made by families
  Michael A. Gittelman, Adam C. Carle, Sarah Denny, Samantha Anzeljc, Melissa Wervey Arnold
• Is a driver’s license age waiver worth a teen’s life?
  Dawn M. Porter, Beverly K. Miller, Samantha H. Mullins, Mary E. Porter, Mary E. Aitken
• Pediatric falls ages 0–4: understanding demographics, mechanisms, and injury severities
  Sofia Chaudhary, Janet Figueroa, Salah Shaikh, Elizabeth Williams Mays, Rana Bayakly, Mahwish Javed, Matthew Lee Smith, Tim P. Moran, Jonathan Rupp, Sharon Nieb

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