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Each year in the United States, emergency departments treat more than 200,000 children ages 14 and younger for playground-related injuries (Tinsworth 2001).
In 1995,
playground-related injuries among children ages 14 and younger cost an
estimated $1.2 billion (Office of Technology
Assessment 1995).
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1999;153:363–6.
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