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Learn about NEISS-AIP, its purpose, sample design, data elements, and quality methods. Understand the ongoing ED surveillance, special studies, and follow-up investigations. Explore the NEISS hospitals and the comprehensive data elements captured. Discover how to access NEISS-AIP data via WISQARS and other platforms.
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System-All Injury Program (NEISS-AIP) J. Lee Annest, Ph.D. Office of Statistics and Programming National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Centers for Disease Control and Prevention June 1-2, 2005
Outline • Purpose of NEISS-AIP • Sample Design • Data Elements • Quality Assurance Methods • Data Reporting
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) • Operated by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Started October, 1978 • Monitor consumer product-related injuries • Nationally representative sample of 99 U.S. hospitals with > 6 beds and an ED • First time, injury-related visits
Components of NEISS • Ongoing ED surveillance • Special studies • Follow-up investigations
Ongoing ED Surveillance • Sampling frame updated every 10 years (last update 1997) • Captures 330,000 consumer product-related injuries annually • Timely access to data • Core data elements (age, sex, race/ethnicity of patient, two-product codes, primary body part affected, principal diagnosis, locale of injury incident, ED discharge disposition, narrative)
99 NEISS Hospitals Claremont, NH Pittsfield, MA Brooklyn, NY Patchogue, NY Staten Island, NY Bridgeton, NJ Lanham, MD Rockville, MD Very Large Hospitals Large Hospitals Medium Hospitals Santurce, PR Small Hospitals Children’s Hospitals Data Source: U.S. CPSC
NEISS Sample Design Stratum Total ERVs Hospitals NEISS sample 1 1-16,830 3,179 46 2 16,831-28,150 1,059 13 3 28,151-41,130 674 9 4 41,131+ 426 23 Children’s Various 50 8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 5,388 99
NEISS All Injury Program • Started July, 2000 • Nationally representative subsample of 66 NEISS hospitals with > 6 beds and an ED • First time, injury-related visits
NEISS All Injury Program • Approx. 500,000 cases per year (@ $4.00 USD per case) • Extensive training and quality assurance program with both automated and visual edits • Data on mechanism and intent of injury • Data available to public annually in the late summer of following year
NEISS All Injury Program Cause-of-Injury Data Elements • Mechanism (precipitating & immediate) • 22 categories (ICECI short version) • For transport (traffic-relatedness) • For MV-occupant (occupant status) • Intent of injury • Assault, suspected and confirmed (victim-offender relationship, context of assault) • Self-harm, suspected and confirmed • Unintentional/undetermined
Public Access of NEISS_AIP Data? • Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) • NEISS AIP analysis files available through the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan • CDC fact sheets on the internet, MMWR, peer-reviewed articles, state profiles
United States Fatal and Nonfatal Injurieshttp://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars
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