Injury Surveillance
Will Help Users Understand:
- WHAT injury tools and resources are available.
- HOW to set up injury surveillance of key conditions.
- WHICH injury guidance is static and which components are updated annually.
Injury Surveillance Overview
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Injury surveillance is one of the most important and primary public health activities because it drives injury prevention and control.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), each year millions of people experience nonfatal injuries in the United States. Surveillance measures the magnitude of injury and overdose, determines the leading causes and types of injury and overdose, and identifies the population groups most affected by these conditions.
Such information is fundamental to determining program and prevention priorities, evaluating the effectiveness of program activities, and identifying priority areas that need further investigation.
Foundations of Injury Surveillance
Essential tools and frameworks for effective injury surveillance systems.
Injury Data Sources
Comprehensive datasets and reporting mechanisms for tracking injury patterns.
Peer Develop Guidance
Guidelines for addressing unique challenges in data collection and interpretation.
Special Emphasis Reports
Focused analyses on priority injury topics and vulnerable populations.
Injury Data Quality
Sample dashboards and charts showcasing effective injury data presentation.
Injury Indicators
Key metrics that identify trends and measure prevention program effectiveness.
Programming Resources
Technical tools and code samples for data management and analysis.
Surveillance Supplements
Reference materials, training opportunities, and partner organization information.
Toolkit Provides Guidance on (in the grey section):
- Using peer guidance on mortality and morbidity resources for injury surveillance.
- Understanding injury data sources and the differences between hospitalization, Emergency Department (ED) visit, mortality, and syndromic surveillance data and how that informs surveillance methodology.
- Reporting standardized injury and overdose indicators.
- Moving injury data to action using Special Emphasis Reports.
- Programming resources and other national databases.
Terms
- The injury indicators presented in this toolkit, include all injury, drowning, fall-related injury, fire-related injury, firearm-related injury, assault, motor vehicle-related injury, nondrug poisoning, drug overdose, intentional self-harm, and traumatic brain injury (TBI). These injury indicators are derived from medical billing codes that use the ICD‐10‐CM system and from death certificates that use the ICD-10 system. Overlap exists among these indicators. For example, a poisoning-related injury could be included in both the poisoning injury indicator and the intentional self-harm indicator.
- This toolkit references medical administrative discharge data, which will be referred to as “discharge” data throughout this document. These data were not created for injury surveillance and are secondary data sources. The terms “discharge” and “billing” are often used interchangeably; however “discharge” has been used in other guidance documents and may be more familiar to practitioners.
- The terms “overdose” and “poisoning” are often used synonymously. Throughout this toolkit the term “drug overdose” is used to describe drug-involved poisoning cases, while “poisoning” is used for nondrug involved cases.
Acknowledgement Statement:
This product was developed by the CSTE ICD-10-CM Transition Workgroup, the CSTE ICD-10-CM Drug Poisoning Indicators Workgroup, and CSTE consultants with subject matter support and review from CDC/NCIPC and CDC/NCHS. Product development was supported in part by CDC Cooperative Agreement Number NU38OT000297-01-00.
The findings and conclusions in this report are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC or HHS.