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Update: NEISS
Quinlan KP, Thompson MP, Annest JL, Peddicord J, Ryan G, Kessler EP, McDonald AK. Expanding the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System to monitor all nonfatal injuries treated in US hospital emergency departments. Annals of Emergency Medicine November 1999;34:637-645. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission recently assessed whether the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) could be expanded to provide nationally representative data on all nonfatal injuries treated in U.S. emergency departments (EDs). Currently the NEISS is used to monitor only ED-treated consumer product-related injuries in the United States. All persons receiving first-time treatment for an injury were monitored during a 3-month period of 1997 at a representative sample of 21 NEISS hospital EDs. To evaluate the data collection effort, a sensitivity study was conducted at six of the hospitals. Ongoing surveillance of nonfatal injuries would be valuable for prioritizing national prevention efforts, especially for injuries which are severe but not often fatal (see table below). Such a system would also allow for identification of high-risk groups, monitoring of trends, and evaluation of prevention programs.
Table: Three leading causes of nonfatal injuries treated in U.S. hospital emergency departments by age group. All Injury Study, 1997. Numbers in each group category represent estimated annual number of ED-treated injuries for that cause.
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