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Florida Injury Surveillance Data System

Note: As of July 1, 2012, the Office of Injury Prevention became the Injury Prevention Program. Documents and activities finalized prior to this date will retain "Office of Injury Prevention".

Overview

The Injury Prevention Program (IPP) maintains a statewide Injury Surveillance Data System to:

  • monitor the frequency of fatal and non-fatal injuries
  • determine the risk factors for fatal and non-fatal injuries
  • evaluate the completeness, timeliness, and quality of data sources
  • provide information to Florida's injury prevention community for program
    planning and evaluation
  • provide a foundation for injury prevention strategies within the 2009–2013 Florida Injury Prevention Strategic Plan

The data system is modeled after the consensus recommendations developed through the Safe States Alliance (formerly the State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association [STIPDA]). Reports of the recommendations are available below.

Through the Florida Injury Surveillance Data System, the Injury Prevention Program can access multiple data sources, including:

  • Vital Records (Death Certificates)*
  • Hospital Discharge Data*
  • Emergency Department Discharge Data*
  • Motor Vehicle Crash Records
  • Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
  • Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
  • Child Death Review
  • Uniform Crime Reporting System
  • Emergency Medical Services

* This is one of the Primary Sources.

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Leading Statewide Injuries

*Note: As of July 1, 2012, the Office of Injury Prevention became the Injury Prevention Program. Documents and activities finalized prior to this date will retain "Office of Injury Prevention".

Description: Color-coded tables showing the 10 leading injury mechanisms across 11 different age groups for each year of data.

Directions: Click on a year below to open or save the data file. File will open as a PDF document in a new window. Explanations of the injury intent and mechanism classifications used in the following data files are available in the ICD Code Explanations.

10 Leading Fatal Injuries

(DataSource: DeathStat Database, Office of Vital Statistics, Florida Department of Health)

10 Leading Non-Fatal Hospitalizations

(DataSource: Inpatient Hospital Discharge Data [Public Version], Florida Center for Health Information and Policy Analysis, Florida Agency for Health Care Administration)

10 Leading Non-Fatal Injury Emergency Department Visits

(Data Source: Outpatient Emergency Department Discharge Data [Public Version], Florida
Center for Health Information and Policy Analysis, Florida Agency for Health Care Administration)

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Florida Injury Data: State and County

*Note: As of July 1, 2012, the Office of Injury Prevention became the Injury Prevention Program. Documents and activities finalized prior to this date will retain "Office of Injury Prevention".

Description: Detailed tables providing a picture of injuries within the state of Florida and each of Florida’s 67 counties. Each table has 68 tabs. Each tab contains a two-page profile of injury data by intent, mechanism, and age group; one for the state of Florida plus each of Florida's 67 counties. Data is analyzed using the Florida Injury Surveillance System.

Directions: Click on a year below to open or save the data file. File will open in an Excel spreadsheet in a new window. Each file is approximately 4MB. Explanations of the injury intent and mechanism classifications used in the following data files are available in the ICD Code Explanations.

Fatal Injuries

(Data Source: DeathStat Database, Office of Vital Statistics, Florida Department of Health)

Non-Fatal Injury Hospitalizations

(Data Source: Inpatient Hospital Discharge Data [Public Version], Florida Center for Health Information and Policy Analysis, Florida Agency for Health Care Administration)

Non-Fatal Injury Emergency Department Visits

(Data Source: Outpatient Emergency Department Discharge Data [Public Version], Florida Center for Health Information and Policy Analysis, Florida Agency for Health Care Administration)

Notes on Hospital and Emergency Department Data:

  • Data may contain multiple hospitalizations or visits for the same person/injury event due to hospital transfers, readmissions, and follow-up visits. Therefore, the data reflects the number of hospitalizations and emergency department visits and not the number of people injured.
  • Data for specific mechanisms of injury may be underestimated due to incomplete reporting of the external cause of injury as an ICD-9-CM E Code. Uncoded hospitalizations and emergency department visits are labeled “Not E Coded.”

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Injury Fact Sheets

*Note: As of July 1, 2012, the Office of Injury Prevention became the Injury Prevention Program. Documents and activities finalized prior to this date will retain "Office of Injury Prevention".

Description: Individual, six-page fact sheets describing select injury mechanisms and intents in great detail. Each fact sheet characterizes the topic using text, tables, graphs, and GIS maps to provide knowledge and focus for prevention activities.

Directions: Click on an injury topic below to open or save the fact sheet. File will open as a PDF document in a new window. Each file is approximately 2MB and 6 pages.

2007–2009 Surveillance Data Fact Sheets

Previous surveillance data injury fact sheets are combined into single PDF files that open in a new window. Each file is under 5 MB.

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Annual Data Reports

*Note: As of July 1, 2012, the Office of Injury Prevention became the Injury Prevention Program. Documents and activities finalized prior to this date will retain "Office of Injury Prevention".

The Annual Florida Injury Data Reports have been replaced by the yearly Injury Fact Sheets

Annual Florida Injury Data Report: 2004 Surveillance Data

Annual Florida Injury Data Report: 2005 Surveillance Data

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Data Requests

Under Florida law, e-mail addresses are public records. If you do not want your e-mail address released in response to a public records request, do not send electronic mail to this entity. Instead, contact this program by phone or in writing.

Still have questions? Please email the Injury Prevention Program or call (850)245-4440.

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This page was last modified on: 09/9/2013 08:18:48