Assessment of Neighborhood Influence on Pediatric Trauma Outcome

Introduction: The Child Opportunity Index (COI) is a new measure that combines educational, health and environmental, and socioeconomic variables that have previously been associated with childhood development. This metric is publicly available for 100 US metropolitan areas. It is known that lower socioeconomic status is associated with increased risk of traumatic injury in children. To our knowledge, a multi-factorial comparison such as the COI has not been used to assess associations between neighborhood opportunity and outcomes of pediatric traumatic …