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Researchers from the UK’s National Health Service believe increasing adoption of cashless payments may be having an unexpected payoff: Fewer kids are swallowing coins and seeking medical help to remove them.…
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Researchers from the UK’s National Health Service believe increasing adoption of cashless payments may be having an unexpected payoff: Fewer kids are swallowing coins and seeking medical help to remove them.
As explained in a paper titled “Coin-cidence? Have cashless payments reduced the incidence of upper aerodigestive foreign body insertion?”, since use of cash started to decline in 2012 UK Hospital Episode Statistics reveal a decline in procedures to remove foreign bodies (FBs).
