2.0 Nonfatal Injury
Reports - Overview
The request page for nonfatal injury reports
allows you to request
statistical tables by
- Cause (mechanism) of injury
(such as falls, motor vehicle, fire/burn, cut/pierce,
poisonings)
- Intent of
injury (such as unintentional, assault, self-harm);
- Race / ethnicity (such as non-white Hispanic,
black, Hispanic),
- Sex
- Disposition (where the injured
person went after being released from the emergency
department), and
- Year of
reporting.
Also, for transportation-related injuries (e.g., motor
vehicle occupant, motorcyclist, pedal cyclist, pedestrian, and
other transport), you can select whether the injury occurred on a public road or
highway (i.e., was
traffic-related).
Under advanced options, you can
- Select reporting
groups (e.g., age groups, disposition),
- Request
age-adjusted rates by standard populations, and
- Define
specific ages or age groupings of interest.
Because of the
relatively high proportion of cases with unknown/unspecified
race/ethnicity (approximately 17% of overall cases), WISQARS
Nonfatal does not provide injury
rates for selected race/ethnicity groups.
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3.0 Leading Causes of
Nonfatal Injury - Overview
The
request page for leading causes of nonfatal injury reports
allows you to access charts of leading causes of
injury. One way to access a chart is to select one of
nine quick reports that display common leading causes of
nonfatal injury. These quick reports are located at
the top of the request page.
The other way to access a chart is to
request a custom report. You can request up
to 20 leading causes of nonfatal injuries by
- Sex,
- Race / ethnicity,
- Disposition (where the injured
person went after release from the emergency
department),
- Intent of injury (unintentional or violence-related), and
- Year of reporting.
After you select a quick report or submit
your custom request, WISQARS nonfatal displays a chart that ranks leading causes
of nonfatal injuries by age groups and for all ages.
Under advanced options for a customized report, you can select rankings of
leading causes by single year of age or for a specific age
group.
At the top of each column in the chart is a specific age group. By
clicking on one of these age
groups, you can obtain percentages and advanced
statistics on the reliability of the national
estimates provided within the chart.
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