SAFE KIDS COALITIONS

Hospital E-Code Reports 2000

These reports are designed to provide interested parties with a basic overview of injuries occurring to persons aged 0 to 19 in their communities or in Wisconsin, in single or multiple years. Injuries are reported in 25 detailed categories, for four classes of “intention” (unintentional, self-inflicted, assault and other) and by detailed age group. The detailed categories are collapsed into 7 categories for some of the reports. The nine reports in this series are:

	Detailed Cause of Injury – Number, Charges, Length of Stay and Severity
	Underlying Intent for Injury - Number, Charges, Length of Stay and Severity
	Detailed Cause of Injury by Age – Number and Percent
	Detailed Cause of Injury by Year – Number and Percent
	Age Group by Major Cause of Injury – Number, Charges, Length of Stay and Severity
	Age Group & Major Cause of Injury by Underlying Intent – Number and Percent
	Age Group & Major Cause of Injury, by Year – Number and Percent
	Sex & Major Cause of Injury, by Age Group – Number and Percent
	Sex by Age Group -- Number, Charges, Length of Stay and Severity

Sources of Data

The information on the attached pages comes from Hospital discharge data collected by the Bureau of Information within the Department of Health and Family Services. These data have information related to injury severity added to them (obtained using ICDMAP-90 software, which is based on injury severity scores developed by the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine in the 1960s). Additionally, E-Codes have been categorized utilizing a scheme developed by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, and published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly in 1997 (for the NCIPC Report, go to: ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Publications/mmwr/rr/rr4614.pdf ).

For detailed information on the categorization of cause of injury, please see this report (Adobe Acrobat is required to read it).

How to Interpret the Data:

q Cases are hospital discharges with an E-Code (External Injury Code) reported only. They do not include persons who died prior to being admitted to the hospital, nor do they apply to persons seen in an emergency room but not admitted to the hospital.

q Hospital charges are for the inpatient stay only. They do not include fees for anesthesiologists, operations, follow-up visits, physical therapy, etc.