State
Injury Indicators:
Instructions for Preparing 2005 Data
Injury
surveillance is one of the most important and basic elements of injury
prevention and control. It helps determine the leading causes of injury
and the population groups and behaviors associated with the greatest
risk of injury. Surveillance also helps states and U.S. territories to
identify prevention needs and to determine individual injury prevention
program priorities.
The State Injury Indicators: Instructions for Preparing 2005 Data manual
was developed to guide states and U.S. territories on the collection,
preparation, and submission of injury surveillance data. This manual
also includes a CD-ROM with spreadsheets that provides states and U.S.
territories with a standardized and straightforward tool for calculating
injury surveillance rates.
Updates for the 2005 data collection cycle are listed below:
- In order to make the two Motor Vehicle Indicators parallel, non-traffic codes have been removed from the Motor Vehicle Hospitalization Indicator.
- The terrorism International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition (ICD-10) codes (*U01-*U03) and the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes (E979 and E999.1) have been added to case definitions where appropriate.
- Additional codes have been added to both the Traumatic Brain Injury Fatality and Hospitalization Indicators.
- The ICD-9-CM codes for Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (995.90-995.94) have been excluded from the case definition used to prepare the Injury Hospitalization Data Set.
- Instructions for five additional indicators have been included:
- All-Injury Indicator 1: Injury Fatalities
- Fall Indicator 1: Unintentional Fall-Related Fatalities
- Fall Indicator 2: Unintentional Fall-Related Hospitalizations
- Fall Indicator 3: Hip Fracture Hospitalizations in Persons Aged 65 Years and Older
- Homicide/Assault Indicator 2: Assault-Related Hospitalizations
The three Falls Indicators were recommended as a result of the consensus building process of the State and Territorial Injury prevention Directors Association, Injury Surveillance Workgroup on Falls. The pre-existing All-Injury and Homicide/Assault areas were expanded to include the corresponding vital statistics or hospital discharge data indicators.
All
states and U.S. territories are eligible and encouraged to voluntarily
submit data for inclusion in the State Injury Indicators Report.
Information obtained from participants will be reviewed and assembled in
the 2005 edition of the report.
View or download the manual
PDF
(PDFs require
Adobe Acrobat.)
Obtain the data submission spreadsheets
To obtain the data submission spreadsheets, email Karen Thomas at
KEThomas@cdc.gov.
Page last modified: April 25, 2007