261385 Annual Exploration of Injury and Emergency Health Data Issues

Monday, October 29, 2012 : 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM

Joseph L. Annest, PhD , National Center for Injury Prevention and Control/DARPI, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
Holly Hedegaard, MD, MSPH , Office of Analysis and Epidemiology, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD
Margaret Warner, PhD , Division of Vital Statistics, Mortality Statistics Branch, National Center for Health Statistics (CDC), Hyattsville, MD
Larry Cook, MStat, PhD , Intermountain Injury Control Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

This year's session will continue the tradition of past of meetings, where members discuss current issues surrounding injury and emergency health data. Topics for this year's Data Roundtable include:

·        Injury framework for ICD-10-CM: A draft external-cause-of-injury matrix (mechanism by intent) for ICD-10-CM will be introduced.  The matrix is based on a crosswalk from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM and consistency with the ICD-10 mortality matrix. Implications of changes in the coding scheme (e.g., no external cause codes for poisonings and suffocation) will be discussed.

·        New direction for WISQARS: An application for injury data on your mobile device.  This app will provide user-friendly interactive tools for presenting injury statistics through state-level maps, charts, tables and graphs with the touch of a finger.

·         Update from the Data and Surveillance Task Force of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention:  The task force conducted a systematic review of national surveillance systems for monitoring fatal and non-fatal self-harm events. The task force has prepared an overview report with recommendations for possible enhancements/additions to the data systems to improve the availability of surveillance data to inform suicide prevention efforts.

·        Report on ICD-11 and other international activities:  ICD-11 revision is underway and your input is important to the process.  The WHO ICD-11 Topic Advisory Group on external causes met during the Safety 2012 World Conference in New Zealand and the areas of particular concern will be reported.  Other data issues addressed at the Safety 2012 World Conference in New Zealand will also be covered.

Learning Areas:
Assessment of individual and community needs for health education
Biostatistics, economics
Communication and informatics
Conduct evaluation related to programs, research, and other areas of practice
Epidemiology
Public health or related research

Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this session participants will be able to: 1) Describe the proposed external-cause-of-injury matrix for ICD-10-CM. 2) Utilize the WISQARS system to obtain injury data and statistics on multiple platforms. 3) Understand the need for detailed information on self-harm and suicide events. 4) List current issues in international injury control and emergency health data.

Keywords: Injury Control, Data/Surveillance

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am responsible for the development and opperation of WISQARS and a founding member of the ICEHS data committee.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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