Categories that are reportable for all injury outcomes often, but not always, share a similar definition. There is substantial, but not complete, overlap between the set of mechanism (cause) categories reportable for injury-related deaths and the set of categories reportable for injuries resulting in hospitalization subsequent to ED treatment or injuries resulting in ED treatment only.
Reportable Mechanism (Cause) Categories for Injury-Related Hospitalizations/ED Visits Definitions of these mechanism categories are provided further below in this section.
Each level of indentation corresponds to a data selection detail level (see Section 2.3). The reportable mechanism categories for injuries resulting in hospitalization subsequent to ED treatment or injuries resulting in an ED visit followed by release (without hospitalization or other transfer) are shown below (Table 5). The mechanism of injury was assigned by trained coders referring to narrative information from patient medical records (see Section 5.2 for more information about the underlying data). Reportable Mechanism (Cause) Categories for Injury-Related Deathsįor injuries resulting in hospitalization subsequent to emergency department (ED) treatment or injuries resulting in an ED visit followed by release (without hospitalization or other transfer), the mechanism of injury was defined as the precipitating cause (i.e., the cause that started the chain of events that led to the injury). The reportable mechanism categories for injury-related deaths are shown below (Table 4). The reportable mechanism categories are based on standard groupings of ICD-10 external cause codes in the external-cause-of-injury mortality matrix ( ). For injury-related deaths, the mechanism (cause) of injury was determined according to the International Classification of Disease, 10th Revision 7 (ICD-10) external cause of injury coded as the underlying cause (see Section 5.1 for more information about the source and coding of fatal injury data).
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