NEISS and child injury data.

Limitations of NEISS child injury data.

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...

Child Nonintentional Injury Prevention

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...