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
- 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)
- QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Death Rates Per 100,000 Population for the Three Leading Causes of Injury Death --- United States, 1979-2006 (6/2009)
- Multiple cause of death 1999-2004 now in WONDER (6/2009)
- Mortality 2006 now in WISQAR (5/2009)
- Instructions for Accessing NHAMCS-ED Injury Records (8/2008)
Contact Us:
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Special Projects Branch
Office of Analysis and Epidemiology
National Center for Health Statistics
3311 Toledo Rd
Hyattsville, MD 20782 - 1 (800) 232-4636
- nchsinjury@cdc.gov
