Instructions: Step-by-Step Guide to Accessing NHAMCS-ED Public Use Data Files and Programs to Select Injury Records and Calculate Injury Visit Rates

The instructions are designed to help you access the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey Emergency Department (NHAMCS-ED) data and documentation, to identify injury records, and to calculate injury visit rates. The instructions describe how to obtain and use NHAMCS-ED data for all years beginning with 1995. Specific examples are shown for data year 2004.

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1. Steps to download complete NHAMCS-ED data
2. Steps to download complete NHAMCS-ED documentation for data
3. Steps to download SAS programs to read in complete NHAMCS-ED data
4. Steps to download STATA programs to read in complete NHAMCS-ED data
5. Steps to download population data for calculating rates
6. Access SAS statements for identifying injury record and SAS statements for external cause of injury matrix
7. Access STATA programs for identifying injury record
8. Access SAS and SUDAAN programs and documentation for variance estimation of complete NHAMCS-ED data
9. Access Example SAS program for creating weighted frequencies
10. Examples of runs and output for rate calculation