Help Using Injury Data

WISQARS^TM (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System) is the Injury Center’s interactive, online database that provides customized injury-related mortality data and nonfatal injury data. This data is useful for research and for making informed public health decisions.

Additional Data and Statistics Reports

• Injury Data and Resources
  Resources from CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics.
• HP2020 Health Indicators Warehouse, including Injuries and Violenceexternal icon

Injury Coding and Data Systems

• ICD-10-CM External Cause of Injury Framework (Matrix)
  • The ICD-10-CM External Cause of Injury Framework for Categorizing Mechanism and Intent of Injurypdf icon
  • ICD-10-CM External Cause Matrix Excel files and SAS Formats
  • Proposed ICD-10-CM External Cause of Injury Framework (for historical purposes)
    Proposed Framework for Presenting Injury Data using ICD-10-CM External Cause of Injury Codespdf icon
• Recommended Actions to Improve External-Cause-of-Injury Coding (E-Coding) in State Morbidity Data Systems
• ICD-9/ICD-9-CM External Cause of Injury Matrix
• Recent Estimates of the Completeness of E-coding in State-based Hospital Discharge and Emergency Department Data Systems using AHRQ’s Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) datapdf iconexternal icon
• Inventory of Injury Data Systems
• ICARIS-2 Public Use Data Set Documentation MS Wordword icon PDFpdf icon