Description
NEISS-AIP is an expansion of the Consumer Product Safety Commission's (CPSC) National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS), used to monitor consumer-product related injuries. NEISS-AIP expands the CPSC's definition of reportable injuries to include all nonfatal injuries and poisonings treated in U.S. hospital emergency departments, whether or not associated with consumer products. NEISS collects injury data from a nationally representative sample of U.S. hospital emergency departments; NEISS-AIP uses a subsample of those emergency departments for its data collection.
Supplier(s)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (CDC, NCIPC)
- Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
Data Years Available
2001-present
Periodicity
Annual
Mode
Electronic transmission of abstracted data.
Selected Content
NEISS-AIP collects demographic data, cause/mechanism of injury, intent of injury, principal diagnosis, locale where injury occurred and whether it is work-related. For assaults, relationship of perpetrator to injured person and context of assault is also collected.
Methodology
NEISS hospitals are a stratified probability sample of all U.S. hospitals that have at least 6 beds and provide 24 hour emergency department (ED) services. The NEISS-AIP data are collected at a subset of these hospitals and include very large inner-city hospitals with trauma centers, as well as large urban, suburban, rural, and children's hospitals. Trained, onsite hospital coders abstract and code data for injury-related cases from ED records. Coded data and a narrative are transmitted electronically to the NEISS-AIP program where quality assurance coders review and complete the coding. Data are weighted to produce national estimates.
Response rate and sample size
NEISS collects data from a sample of 100 hospitals with 24 hour emergency department services. NEISS-AIP data are collected at 66 of these hospitals. About 500,000 injuries are reported annually.
References
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars/nonfatal/datasources.htm#5.3. Accessed August 13, 2010.