Limitations of NEISS child injury data.

Limitations of NEISS child injury data.

Limitations of child injury data from the CPSC's National Electronic Injury Surveillance System: the case of baby walker related data.

OBJECTIVES The US Consumer Product Safety Commission's National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) is a primary source for children's consumer product injury surveillance data in the US. Differing interpretations of the emergency department based NEISS baby walker data by various parties prompted this detailed examination, reclassification, and analysis of the NEISS data to explain t...

Secondary Use of Laboratory data: Potentialities and Limitations

Clinical databases have been developed in recent years especially during the course of all medical concerns including laboratory results. The information produced by the diagnostic laboratories have great impact on health care system with various secondary uses. These uses are sometimes as publishing new extracted information of laboratory reports which have been widely applied in the scientifi...

NEISS Tool for Researchers

An Evaluation of Comparability between NEISS and ICD-9-CM Injury Coding

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System's (NEISS) comparability with a data source that uses ICD-9-CM coding. METHODS A sample of NEISS cases from a children's hospital in 2008 was selected, and cases were linked with their original medical record. Medical records were reviewed and an ICD-9-CM code was assigned to each case. Cases in the NEISS sample that were...