Chartbook on trends in injury hospitalizations : United States, 1979-2001

Chartbook on Trends in Injury Hospitalizations: United States, 1979-2001 -- Introduction -- -- General Statistics -- Injury and Noninjury Discharges -- Injury Hospital Discharge Rates by Sex and Race -- Injury Hospital Discharge Rates by Sex and Age -- -- Injury Diagnoses and External Causes of Injury -- Barell Matrix for Injury Diagnosis Categories -- Discharges by Injury Diagnosis -- Fractures -- Poisoning and Toxic Effects -- Discharges by Body Region -- Extremity Injuries -- Head and Neck Injuries -- Hip Fractures -- External Cause of Injury -- -- Utilization and Payment -- Average Number of Diagnoses -- Days of Care -- Average Length of Stay by Age and Sex -- Average Length of Stay by Injury Diagnosis -- Discharge Disposition -- Discharge Disposition by Age -- Expected Source of Payment -- -- Appendixes -- A. Data Sources, Definitions, and Methods -- B. The Barell injury diagnosis matrix; classification by body region and nature of injury -- C. Recommended framework of E-code groupings for presenting injury morbidity data."March 2005."The chartbook was prepared by Melissa Heinen, Margaret Jean Hall, Manon A. Boudreault, and Lois A. Fingerhut with assistance from Rong Cai, Stephanie Furr, and Margaret Warner.Also available via the World Wide Web as a 25 MB Acrobat .pdf file.Mode of access: Internet from the NCHS web site. Address as of 8/17/06: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/injury/InjuryChartbook79-01.pdf; current access is available via PURL.Includes bibliographical references (p. 102).Heinen M, Hall MJ, Boudreault MA, Fingerhut LA. National trends in injury hospitalizations, 1979-2001. Hyattsville, Maryland: National Center for Health Statistics. March 2005