National trends in injury hospitalizations 1979-2001.
Contributors: National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
Series: DHHS publication -- no. 2005-0152
Publisher: Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Hyattsville, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 105
Subjects: Hospitalization -- statistics & numerical data -- United States; Patient Discharge -- statistics & numerical data -- United States; Wounds and Injuries -- classification; Wounds and Injuries -- epidemiology -- United States
Other titles: Chartbook on national trends in injury hospitalizations; Chartbook on trends in injury hospitalizations : United States, 1979-2001
Notes: "March 2005."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Chartbook on Trends in Injury Hospitalizations: United States, 1979-2001; title: Introduction; title: General Statistics; title: Injury and Noninjury Discharges; title: Injury Hospital Discharge Rates by Sex and Race; title: Injury Hospital Discharge Rates by Sex and Age; title: Injury Diagnoses and External Causes of Injury; title: Barell Matrix for Injury Diagnosis Categories; title: Discharges by Injury Diagnosis; title: Fractures; title: Poisoning and Toxic Effects; title: Discharges by Body Region; title: Extremity Injuries; title: Head and Neck Injuries; title: Hip Fractures; title: External Cause of Injury; title: Utilization and Payment; title: Average Number of Diagnoses; title: Days of Care; title: Average Length of Stay by Age and Sex; title: Average Length of Stay by Injury Diagnosis; title: Discharge Disposition; title: Discharge Disposition by Age; title: Expected Source of Payment; title: Appendixes; title: A. Data Sources, Definitions, and Methods; title: B. The Barell injury diagnosis matrix; classification by body region and nature of injury; title: C. Recommended framework of E-code groupings for presenting injury morbidity data.