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INVENTORY OF NATIONAL INJURY DATA SYSTEMS

Below is a list of 44 different federal data systems operated by 16 difference agencies and 3 private injury registry systems that provide nationwide injury-related data. Each data system is listed along with the agency or organization and associated web sites. You can get additional information about survey/surveillance methods and findings by clicking on the URL. Data systems are organized according by topic. Some data systems are listed more than once relevant to different violence- and injury-related topics. Data systems that have state-based data are noted with an asterisk (*).

If you have any further questions, please contact me at:

J. Lee Annest, Ph.D.
Director, Office of Statistics and Programming, NCIPC, CDC
Email: lannest@cdc.gov
Phone: 770-488-4804


Behavioral Risk Factors/Injury Incidence

• Behavioral Risk Factor Survey System (BRFSS)*, CDC-NCCDPHP, annual survey
  URL: http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/



• Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS)*, CDC-NCCDPHP, biennual school-based survey for state/local, occasional national survey
  URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/yrbs/index.htm



• Injury Control and Risk of Injury Survey (ICARIS I, II, II½ ), CDC-NCIPC, periodic survey
  Conducted by NCIPC. No web site available.



• National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), CDC-NCHS, annual household survey
  URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis.htm

Injury Morbidity Data

• National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS), CPSC, NEISS All Injury Program, CPSC/CDC-NCIPC, and NEISS-work-related injury, CPSC/CDC-NIOSH, ongoing
  URL: http://www.cpsc.gov/epidemiology/ 
  URL: http://www.cpsc.gov/library/neiss.html 
  URL: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars (nonfatal injury data)
  URL:http://www2a.cdc.gov/risqs/default.asp (work-related injury)



• National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS), CDC-NCHS, annual survey
  URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/ahcd/ahcd1.htm



• National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS), CDC-NCHS, annual survey
  URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/ahcd/ahcd1.htm



• National EMS Information System (NEMSIS) NHTSA, pre-hospital care data base
  URL: http://www.nemsis.org
  
  
• National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS), CDC-NCHS, annual survey
  URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/hdasd/nhds.htm



• Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project (HCUP), AHRQ
  URL: http://www.ahrq.gov/data/hcup/



• Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), AHRQ/CDC-NCHS
  URL: http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/WhatIsMEPS/Overview.HTM



• Indian Health Service-Ambulatory Care & Inpatient Care Systems, IHS, ongoing
  URL: http://www.ihs.gov/nonmedicalprograms/ihs%5Fstats/



• Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS), CMS, Home Health Care System, ongoing
  URL: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/oasis



• Minimum Data Set For Nursing Home Resident Assessment and Care Screening (MDS-Nursing Homes), CMS,
  URL: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/states/mdsreports
   

Injury Deaths-Death Certificates

• National Vital Statistics System (NVSS)*, CDC-NCHS, ongoing
  URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss.htm



• National Mortality Follow-back Survey- 1993 (NMFS93), CDC-NCHS, periodic
  URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/nmfs/nmfs.htm
   

Automotive/Transport Injury Data

• Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS)*, NHTSA, ongoing, MV crash deaths
  URL: http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/



• National Automotive Sampling System-General Estimates System (NASS-GES), NHTSA, annual
  URL: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/departments/nrd-30/ncsa/ges.html



• National Automotive Sampling System-Crashworthiness Data System (NASS-CDS), NHTSA, annual
  URL: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/departments/nrd-30/ncsa/cds.html



• NHTSA Special Crash Investigation (SCI), NHTSA, (includes air-bag related injuries), on-going. URL: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/departments/nrd-30/ncsa/sci.html Air Bag Fatality Summary Report & Tables. Cases shown as having a case status of "Available" can be found at:
  http://www-nass.nhtsa.dot.gov/BIN/logon.exe/airmislogon



• DOT Federal Railroad Administration, Railway Safety Statistics*, annual (includes statistics on fatal and nonfatal injuries associated with train collisions)
  URL: http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/Default.asp 
   

Automotive Behavioral Injury Data

• National Occupant Protection Use Survey (NOPUS), NHTSA, periodic
  URL: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/departments/nrd-01/summaries/4313ga.html
   
• Motor Vehicle Occupant Safety Survey, NHTSA, biennial
  URL: http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/research/
   
• National Survey of (Drinking and Driving)/(Distracted and Drowsy Driving)/(Speeding and Unsafe Driving) Attitudes and Behaviors, NHTSA, periodic
  URL: http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/research/
   

Occupational Injury Data

• National Traumatic Occupational Fatality Surveillance System (NTOF)*, CDC-NIOSH,
  URL: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/injury
   
• National Electronic Injury Surveillance System – Work RISQ – Nonfatal work-related injuries, CDC-NIOSH,
  URL: http://www2a.cdc.gov/risqs/default.asp
   
• Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI)*, BLS, ongoing
  URL: http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshfat1.htm
   
• Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII)*, BLS, annual survey
  URL: http://www.bls.gov/iif/home.htm
   
• Census of Agriculture (COA)*, DOC, periodic
  URL: http://www.nass.usda.gov/Census_of_Agriculture/index.asp 
  Note: Although available reports do not provide injury statistics, the 1992 Census of Agriculture
  did ask questions about the number of work-related injuries. More recent COAs do not ask about
  injury.
   

Violent Death Data

• National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS)*, FBI, ongoing
  URL: http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/ucr.htm
   
• Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA)*, FBI, ongoing
  URL: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
   
• National Violent Death Reporting System (CDC-NVDRS)*, CDC-NCIPC, 17 states
  URL: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/profiles/nvdrs/facts.htm
   
• Uniform Crime Reports-Supplemental Homicide Reports (UCR-SHR)*, FBI, ongoing
  URL: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
   

Crime and Victimization Data

• National Crime Victimization Survey (NCFS), BJS, annual survey
  URL: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cvict.htm
   
• National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS)*, Child Welfare Information Gateway, ACF, annual,
  URL: http://www.childwelfare.gov/
   
• National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS), Child Welfare Information Gateway, ACF, periodic,
  URL: http://childwelfare.gov/systemwide/statistics/nis.cfm
   
• National Violence Against Women Survey, conducted only once, in 1995-1996, by NIJ/CDC-NCIPC. Although there is no web site, publications from the survey are all available on the web at:
  URL: http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/181867.pdf
  URL: http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/183781.pdf
  URL: http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/169592.pdf
  URL: http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/172837.pdf
   

Drug Abuse Data

• Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), SAMHSA, ongoing
  URL: http://www.dawninfo.samhsa.gov
   
• National Survey on Drug Use and Health, formerly called the
  National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA), SAMHSA, annual
  URL: http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/nhsda.htm
   
• Monitoring the Future Survey (MTFS), NIDA, school-based, annual
  URL: http://www.nida.nih.gov/DrugPages/mtf.html
   
• Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS)*, CDC-NCCDPHP, school-based, biennial
  URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/yrbs/index.htm

Other Injury Data

• National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS), USFA, ongoing
  URL: http://www.usfa.fema.gov/inside-usfa/nfirs.cfm
   
• Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MEDPAR) Limited Data Sets, CMS, ongoing
  URL: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/LimitedDataSets/
   
• Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), CMS, ongoing
  URL: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/apps/mcbs/ 
  
   

PRIVATE INJURY DATA SYSTEM

Trauma care/poisoning data

• National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB) – American College of Surgeons, ongoing
  URL: http://www.facs.org/trauma/ntdb.html
   
• National Poison Data System (NPDS)
  URL: http://www.aapcc.org/
   
• United States Eye Injury Registry – American Society of Ocular Trauma
  URL: http://www.useironline.org 

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