Is there a national survey in the US that tracks accidents causing
injuries by E code annually? E code is the supplementary
classification of external causes of injury and poisining under
ICD-9-CM e.g. motor vehicle traffic accidents = E810-E819. Can you
find me the link to past surveys from 1999 to present current year?

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 04 Oct 2006 09:16 PDT

scow202-ga,

Couple of things:

--most reporting systems switched to ICD-10 right around 1999, so that
codes are now in the (very different) ICD-10 classification (for
instance, injuries are given V codes, rather than E codes).

--The CDC maintains a database based on ICD codes (ICD-9 for 1998 and
earlier, ICD-10 for 1999-2003, the most recent year available). 
HOWEVER, the database only includes data for fatal injuries.

--CDC has a separate database for non-fatal injuries.  It may use
ICD-10 coding (I'm not sure) but doesn't seem to offer an option for
outputting the codes.  In addition, the database only covers the year
2000.


Let me know your thoughts on all this.

pafalafa-ga