Accidents/Unintentional
Injuries
(Data
are for U.S. for year indicated)
Health care use
Number of visits to office-based
physicians: 49.2 million
Source:
National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2006 Summary, Table 14
Number of hospital outpatient
department visits: 6.4 million
Source:
National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2006 Outpatient Department Summary, Table 12
Number of emergency department
visits: 27.7 million
Source:
National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2006 Emergency Department Summary, Table
13
Mortality
All unintentional injury
deaths
Number of deaths: 117,
809
Deaths per 100,000 population:
39.7
Cause of death rank: 5
Unintentional fall deaths
Number of deaths: 19,
656
Deaths per 100,000 population: 6.6
Unintentional poisoning
deaths
Number of deaths:
23,618
Deaths per 100,000 population:
8.0
Motor vehicle traffic
deaths
Number of deaths: 45,343
Deaths per 100,000 population: 15.3
Source:
Deaths: Final Data for 2005, Tables
C, 10, 11
More data
Deaths:
Injuries, 2002
Deaths:
Final Data for 2005
Health,
United States trend Tables on injury
Injury
Fact Sheet
Injury
in the United States, 2007 chartbook
Health
Data Interactive
Related links
National
Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
National
Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
Mortality
data
ICD-10
Injury Mortality Framework Documents
International Collaborative
Effort (ICE) on Injury Statistics
National
Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Web-based Injury Statistics
Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)
National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Injury Control Resource
Information Network
This page last reviewed
November 12, 2008
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