Elizabeth McLoughlin, ScD, Trauma Foundation, San Francisco General Hospital, Bldg 1, 1001 Potrero, San Francisco, CA 94110, 415-664-8030, liz@tf.org, Lois A Fingerhut, MA, NCHS, 6525 Belcrest Road, Rm 750, Hyattsville, MD 20782, and J. Lee Annest, PhD, NCIPC, CDC, 4770 Buford Hwy K59, Atlanta, GA 30341.

This session will continue the tradition of the past decade of APHA meetings, where members discuss current issues in injury data. The following topics will be discussed at length: 1) Motor Vehicle-related injuries: implications of ICD-10; reducing the high number of MV deaths unspecified for person type (e.g. occupant, motorcyclist, pedal cyclist, pedestrian, other) in the National Vital Statistics System ; using NHTSA's FARS data to distribute the unspecifieds. 2) Multiple cause of death data: findings from NCHS, use by state epidemiologists. We will present brief information on the following topics: a) International issues: report on the Burden of Injury and the 2004 World Conference; b) Cost of Injury report: findings, challenges, uses; c) New standard death certificate form; d) Poisoning: implications of ICD-10; definitions; adverse drug events; how poisoning data should be reported. Since this is addressed fully in another session, we will only summarize at round table.

Learning Objectives: Session objectives

• increase data expertise among participants;
• address difficult issues and explore potential solutions;
• create networks of those committed to good data.

Keywords: Data/Surveillance, Injury

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.

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