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Description & Citation--Study No. 4598

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:4598
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04598
 
Title:National Electronic Injury Surveillance System All Injury Program, 2004
 
Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
 
  United States Consumer Product Safety Commission
 
Series:National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) Series
 
Funding Agency:United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
 
Bibliographic Citation:U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, and United States Consumer Product Safety Commission. NATIONAL ELECTRONIC INJURY SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM ALL INJURY PROGRAM, 2004 [Computer file]. ICPSR04598-v1. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control [producer], 2006. Ann Arbor MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-11-21. doi:10.3886/ICPSR04598
 

Scope of Study

Summary:Beginning in July 2000, the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in collaboration with the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), expanded the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) to collect data on all types and causes of injuries treated in a representative sample of United States hospitals with emergency departments (ED). This system is called the NEISS All Injury Program (NEISS AIP). The NEISS AIP is designed to provide national incidence estimates of all types and external causes of nonfatal injuries and poisonings treated in United States hospital EDs. Data on injury-related visits are being obtained from a national sample of 66 out of 100 NEISS hospitals that were selected as a stratified probability sample of hospitals in the United States and its territories with a minimum of six beds and a 24-hour ED. The sample includes separate strata for very large, large, medium, and small hospitals, defined by the number of annual ED visits per hospital, and children's hospitals. The scope of reporting goes beyond routine reporting of injuries associated with consumer-related products in CPSC's jurisdiction to include all injuries and poisonings. The data can be used to (1) measure the magnitude and distribution of nonfatal injuries in the United States, (2) monitor unintentional and violence-related nonfatal injuries over time, (3) identify emerging injury problems, (4) identify specific cases for follow-up investigations of particular injury-related problems, and (5) set national priorities. A fundamental principle of this expansion effort is that preliminary surveillance data will be made available in a timely manner to a number of different federal agencies with unique and overlapping public health responsibilities and concerns. Also, annually, the final edited data are released as public use data files for use by other public health professionals and researchers. These public use data files provide NEISS AIP data on nonfatal injuries collected from July through December 2000 (ICPSR 3582), from January through December 2001 (ICPSR 3817), from January through December 2002 (ICPSR 4085), from January through December 2003 (ICPSR 4352), and from January through December 2004 (ICPSR 4598). Variables in the datasets include body part affected by injury, diagnosis, case disposition, fire involvement, immediate cause of injury, injury as determined by the CDC, intent of injury, intent with sexual/other assault, locales where injured, precipitating cause of injury, perpetrator to victim relationship in assault, reason for assault, whether injury was sports-related or traffic-related, whether it was a violent injury, and date of injury. Demographic information specifies race, sex, and age of patient.
 
Subject Term(s):accidents, medical care, nonfatal injuries, poisoning, product safety, public health, public safety
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:January 2004 - December 2004
 
Date(s) of Collection:January 2004 - December 2004
 
Universe:United States hospitals providing emergency services.
 
Data Type:administrative records data
 

Methodology

Sample:Data were collected from a national sample of 66 out of 100 NEISS hospitals that were selected as a stratified probability sample of United States hospitals with at least six beds that provided 24-hour emergency service excluding psychiatric and penal institutions. The sample included five strata of which four represented different levels of hospital size, measured by the number of emergency department visits. The fifth contained the children's hospitals. There were 31 hospitals in the small stratum, 9 hospitals in the medium stratum, 6 hospitals in the large stratum, 15 hospitals in the very large stratum, and 5 hospitals in the children's stratum.
 
Data Source:medical records
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:2006-11-21
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: National Electronic Injury Surveillance System All Injury Program, 2004
 

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