What The Study Did: Emergency department data were used to describe the number, type, severity and factors associated with firework-related eye injuries that occurred in the United States from 1999 to 2017.
Authors: Natasha Nayak Kolomeyer, M.D., of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, is the corresponding author.
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(doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2020.0832)
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