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Accidents/Unintentional
Injuries

(Data are for U.S. for year in parentheses)

Health care use

Number of visits to office-based physicians: 58.7 million (2002)

Source: National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2002 Summary

Number of hospital outpatient department visits: 5.6 million (2002)

Source: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2002 Outpatient Department Summary

Number of emergency department visits: 26.6 million (2002)

Source: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2002 Emergency Department Summary

Mortality

All unintentional injury deaths

Number of deaths: 106,742 (2002)

Deaths per 100,000 population: 37.0 (2002)

Cause of death rank: 5 (2002)

Unintentional fall deaths

Number of deaths: 16,257 (2002)

Deaths per 100,000 population: 5.6 (2002)

Unintentional poisoning deaths

Number of deaths: 17,550 (2002)

Deaths per 100,000 population: 6.1 (2002)

Motor vehicle traffic deaths

Number of deaths: 44,065 (2002)

Deaths per 100,000 population: 15.3 (2002)

Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2002, table 18

More data

Deaths: Injuries, 2001

Deaths: Leading Causes for 2001

Injury-related visits to hospital emergency departments by sex, age, and intent and mechanism of injury: average annual 1995-96, 1998-99, and 2000-01  Health, United States,2003, table 83

Death rates for motor vehicle-related injuries, according to sex, race, Hispanic origin, and age: selected years 1950-2001  Health, United States, 2003, table 44

Related Links

National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey

National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey

Mortality data

ICD-10 Injury Mortality Framework Documents

International Collaborative Effort (ICE) on Injury Statistics

National Center for Injury Prevention and Control

Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

Injury Control Resource Information Network

 

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