{"content":[{"text":"Health Department","bbox":{"left":0.088235,"top":0.098973,"width":0.16454599999999997,"height":0.016926999999999998}},{"text":"Environmental Health Services","bbox":{"left":0.088235,"top":0.135519,"width":0.312666,"height":0.01974100000000001}},{"text":"Scooter­related Injuries in Multnomah County July­November 2018 \n 1/14/2019","bbox":{"left":0.088235,"top":0.192337,"width":0.724295,"height":0.045721999999999985}},{"text":"Key points \n ● After reviewing emergency department and urgent care clinic data, the Health Department found \n no evidence of injury rates that would discourage a further scooter pilot in the City of Portland. \n ● We identified 176 emergency department visits related to scooters during the pilot period. There \n were approximately 700,000 e­scooter trips during this period. \n ● Multnomah County Health Department supports Vision Zero, the City of Portland’s effort to \n eliminate serious and fatal traffic crash injuries. A key component of Vision Zero is ensuring that \n streets have safe spaces for all users.","bbox":{"left":0.088235,"top":0.271523,"width":0.823805,"height":0.150926}},{"text":"Background \n The Health Department’s Environmental Health Services team works to make neighborhoods healthier \n and more equitable in Multnomah County. As part of this effort, we partner with the Portland Bureau of \n Transportation (PBOT) to understand and monitor traffic crash injuries, a leading cause of injury death \n in the County. In the Fall of 2018, we examined health data from emergency department visits for \n scooter injuries. This followed the completion of the City of Portland’s e­scooter pilot program, which \n ran from July 25 through November 20. This summary presents results of that analysis.","bbox":{"left":0.088235,"top":0.440084,"width":0.8135260000000001,"height":0.131986}},{"text":"Methods \n We searched a state data system called ESSENCE that compiles records of emergency department \n and urgent care clinic visits, looking for the word “scooter” in specific parts of the record. We included \n visits that were made by people age 16 or older in Multnomah County, and removed records related to \n a mobility assistance device such as a motorized wheelchair. We reviewed cases for evidence of \n helmet use, intoxication, riding on the sidewalk, scooter malfunction, and characteristics of crashes \n between scooters and another mode of travel. The records include codes that have a small amount of \n information about the nature of the injury, such as the area of the body that was injured. They also \n include some basic demographic data, such as age and sex. Emergency department and urgent care \n visits do not capture complete data on scooter injuries. Some people likely did not seek medical \n treatment for minor injuries and therefore we have no record of those injuries.","bbox":{"left":0.088235,"top":0.589705,"width":0.810561,"height":0.20774399999999993}},{"text":"This is a rapid evaluation of emergency department visit counts and rates during the four­month pilot. \n More in­depth and more rigorous studies could reach conclusions beyond the scope of this one, but this \n approach allowed us to work quickly, in time for an evaluation of the pilot program.","bbox":{"left":0.088235,"top":0.819819,"width":0.8229120000000001,"height":0.05338799999999999}},{"text":"1","bbox":{"left":0.900735,"top":0.928519,"width":0.010905000000000054,"height":0.016927000000000025}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.779412,"top":0.036932,"width":0.186275,"height":0.060606}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.779412,"top":0.036932,"width":0.186275,"height":0.060606}]}