The purpose of this Web site is to provide an overview of injury morbidity and mortality data and statistics available from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and to provide details on injury surveillance methodology and tools to assist in data analysis.
- NCHS Databases
Resources for injury data from various NCHS surveys and data collection systems - International Collaborative Effort on Injury Statistics
Learn about the mission and current activities of ICE - Tools and Frameworks
Tools for classifying International Classification of Disease (ICD) Codes - Data Access and Resources
Related resources in injury data
What's New
- Drug Poisoning Deaths in the United States, 1980–2008 (12/2011)
- QuickStats: Percentage of Injuries that Resulted in Time Lost from Work or School --- National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2004—2007 (2/2010)
- QuickStats: Annual Rate of Injury Episodes for Leading Causes of Injury, by Sex --- National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2004—2007 (2/2010)
- QuickStats: Percentage Distribution of Injuries, by Place of Occurrence, Among Males and Females --- National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2004—2007 (2/2010)
- Recommended actions to improve external-cause-of-injury coding in state-based hospital discharge and emergency department data systems (12/2009)
- Increase in Fatal Poisonings Involving Opioid Analgesics in the United States, 1999-2006 (9/2009)
- Injury Episodes and Circumstances: National Health Interview Survey, 1997-2007 [PDF - 776 KB] (9/2009)
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Contact Us:
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Office of Analysis and Epidemiology
National Center for Health Statistics
3311 Toledo Rd
Hyattsville, MD 20782 - 1 (800) 232-4636
- nchsinjury@cdc.gov