All Injuries
(Data are for the U.S.)
Morbidity
- Number of medically attended injury and poisoning episodes in the noninstitutionalized population: 34.9 million
- Episodes per 1,000 population: 114.7
Health care use
Ambulatory care
- Number of ambulatory care visits (to physician offices, hospital outpatient and emergency departments) for injuries: 80.2 million (average annual, 2006-2007, includes visits for adverse effects of medical treatment)
Sources: National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2009 Summary Tables, table 12 [PDF - 382 KB]
National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2009 Outpatient Department Summary Tables, table 10 [PDF - 330 KB]
National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2009 Emergency Department Summary Tables, table 11 [PDF - 481 KB]
(data shown are based on summing estimates across these 3 tables)
- Number of emergency department visits for injuries: 45.4 million (includes visits for adverse effects of medical treatment)
Hospital inpatient care
- Number of discharges for fractures (all sites): 1.1 million
- Number of discharges for poisonings: 292,000
- Number of discharges for certain complications of surgical and medical care: 1.0 million
Mortality
All injury deaths
- Number of deaths: 177,154
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 57.7
Motor vehicle traffic deaths
- Number of deaths: 34,485
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 11.2
All poisoning deaths
- Number of deaths: 41,592
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 13.5
All firearm deaths
- Number of deaths: 31,347
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 10.2
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2009, table 18 [PDF - 2.1 MB]
More data
- Accidents/ Unintentional Injuries
- Assault/Homicide
- CDC WONDER-Multiple Cause-of-Death Data
- CDC WONDER - Underlying Cause of Death
- Deaths: Leading Causes for 2008 [PDF - 2.8 MB]
- Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2010 [PDF - 724 KB]
- Drug Poisoning Deaths in the United States, 1980–2008
- Health, United States trend tables on injury
- Injury Episodes and Circumstances: National Health Interview Survey: 1997-2007 [PDF - 777 KB]
- Injury in the United States, 2007 Chart book [PDF - 6.6 MB]
- NCHS Fact Sheet - NCHS Data on Injuries
- Search Tables for Injuries in Health Data Interactive
- Self-inflicted Injury/Suicide
- Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)
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