All Injuries
(Data are for the U.S.)
Morbidity
- Number of medically attended injury and poisoning episodes in the noninstitutionalized population: 34.3 million
- Episodes per 1,000 population: 115.7
Source: Summary Health Statistics for the U.S. Population: National Health Interview Survey, 2007, Table 8
Health care use
Ambulatory care
- Number of ambulatory care visits for injuries, all settings: 81.4 million (includes visits for adverse effects of medical treatment)
Source: Ambulatory Medical Care Utilization Estimates for 2006, Table 5
- Number of emergency department visits for injuries: 42.4 million (includes visits for adverse effects of medical treatment)
Source: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2006 Emergency Department Summary, Table 14
Hospital inpatient care
- Number of discharges (injuries and poisonings): 3.0 million (includes 0.9 million discharges for certain complications of surgical and medical care)
- Discharges per 10,000 population: 99.5
Source: 2006 National Hospital Discharge Survey, Tables 2, 3
Mortality
All injury deaths
- Number of deaths: 173,753
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 58.6
Motor vehicle traffic deaths
- Number of deaths: 43,667
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 14.7
All poisoning deaths
- Number of deaths: 32,691
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 11.0
All firearm deaths
- Number of deaths:30,694
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 10.4
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2005, Table 18
More data
- Accidents/ Unintentional Injuries
- Self-inflicted Injury/Suicide
- Assault/Homicide
- Fact Sheet: Data on Injuries
- Injury in the United States, 2007 Chart book
- Ambulatory Medical Care Utilization Estimates for 2006
- National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2006 Emergency Department Summary
- 2006 National Hospital Discharge Survey
- Deaths: Final Data for 2005
- Deaths: Leading Causes for 2004
- Deaths: Injuries, 2002
- Health, United States trend Tables on injury
- Health Data Interactive
- Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)
- CDC WONDER-Compressed Mortality File Underlying Cause-of-Death
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