Issues in using state hospital discharge data in injury control research and surveillance

• Published in: Accident analysis and prevention Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 319 - 325
• Main Authors: Lawrence, Bruce A., Miller, Ted R., Weiss, Harold B., Spicer, Rebecca S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.03.2007
• Subjects: Data Collection; Diagnosis; E codes; Hospital discharge data; Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data; Humans; Injury; International Classification of Diseases; Patient Discharge - statistics & numerical data; Population Surveillance - methods; Public Health Informatics; United States - epidemiology; Wounds and Injuries - classification; Wounds and Injuries - epidemiology; United States; Diagnosis; E codes; Injury; Hospital discharge data

This study evaluates the quality of injury-related coding in state hospital data and their usefulness to injury researchers. Using 1997 hospital discharge records from 19 states, hospitalized non-fatal injury-related cases were identified by first selecting all cases that met broad criteria for inju...