Injury Prevention - Injury Prevention
January 25, 2013
This report examines five years of traumatic brain injury deaths from 2007 through 2011 and traumatic brain injury hospitalizations for the years 2009-2011. Starting in 2009, the diagnostic fields in the hospital discharge data increased from nine fields to eighteen fields. The external cause of injury code fields increased from one field to three fields. E-codes designate the cause of the injury hospitalization, such as a fall or motor vehicle traffic injury.
