“…Minor injuries, however, are far more common, accounting for the vast majority of injuries treated at healthcare institutions each year (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013). If the burden of injury were illustrated as a pyramid, the peak of the pyramid would represent fatalities, the center of the pyramid as hospitalizations, and the wide base of the pyramid as emergency department visits for minor injuries (from both intentional and unintentional causes) where evaluation, treatment, and discharge occur within a relatively short period of time (Sahai, Ward, Zmijowskyj, & Rowe, 2005; Wadman, Muelleman, Coto, & Kellermann, 2003). Minor injuries contribute to 37.3% of disability adjusted life years, exceeding the contribution of serious injuries (33.3%) and fatalities (29.6%) (Polinder, Haagsma, Toet, & Van Beeck, 2012).…”