Selected NCHS Injury Publications and Links

Data Briefs

• Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 1999–2020
• Urban-rural Differences in Unintentional Injury Death Rates Among Children Aged 0–17 Years: United States, 2018–2019
• Unintentional drowning deaths among children aged 0–17 years: United States, 1999–2019.
• Emergency department visit rates for motor vehicle crashes by selected characteristics: United States, 2017–2018.
• Co-involvement of opioids in drug overdose deaths involving cocaine and psychostimulants.
• Urban–rural differences in drug overdose death rates, 1999–2019.
• Motor vehicle traffic death rates, by sex, age group, and road user type: United States, 1999–2019.
• Suicide mortality in the United States, 1999–2019.
• Drug overdose deaths in the United States, 1999–2019. 
• Motor vehicle traffic death rates among adolescents and young adults aged 15–24, by urbanicity: United States, 2000–2018. 
• Increase in drug overdose deaths involving cocaine: United States, 2009–2018.
• Rates of alcohol-induced deaths among adults aged 25 and over in urban and rural areas: United States, 2000–2018.
• Urban–rural differences in suicide rates, by sex and three leading methods: United States, 2000–2018.
• Increase in suicide mortality in the United States, 1999–2018.
• Drug overdose deaths in the United States, 1999–2018.
• Death rates due to suicide and homicide among persons aged 10–24: United States, 2000–2017.
• Urban–rural differences in drug overdose death rates, by sex, age, and type of drugs involved, 2017.
• Unintentional injury death rates in rural and urban areas: United States, 1999–2017.
• Suicide mortality in the United States, 1999–2017.
• Drug overdose deaths in the United States, 1999–2017.
• Suicide rates in the United States continue to increase.
• Parental report of significant head injuries in children aged 3–17 years: United States, 2016.

National Health Statistics Reports

• A Revised ICD–10–CM Surveillance Case Definition for Injury-related Emergency Department Visits [PDF – 271 KB]
• Using SAS/STAT to understand the NCI Joinpoint regression software: Testing for a zero slope using rates of drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl, 2011–2016.
• The 2020 International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification injury diagnosis  framework for categorizing injuries by body region and nature of injury. 
• Opioid-involved emergency department visits in the National Hospital Care Survey and the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. 
• National Hospital Care Survey Demonstration Projects: Opioid-involved emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths. 
• The International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD–10–CM) external cause-of-injury framework for categorizing mechanism and intent of injury.
• Emergency department visits for injuries sustained during sports and recreational activities by patients aged 5–24 years, 2010–2016. 
• An updated International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD–10–CM) surveillance case definition for injury hospitalizations. 
• Identification of substance-involved emergency department visits using data from the National Hospital Care Survey.
• Issues in developing a surveillance case definition for nonfatal suicide attempt and intentional self-harm using International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD–10–CM) coded data.

National Vital Statistics Reports

• Evaluating the cause-of-death information needed for estimating the burden of injury mortality: United States, 2019 [PDF – 667 KB]
• Drug-involved infant deaths in the United States, 2015–2017.
• State suicide rates among adolescents and young adults aged 10–24: United States, 2000–2018.
• Regional differences in the drugs most frequently involved in drug overdose deaths: United States, 2017.
• Drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl, 2011–2016. 
• Drugs most frequently involved in drug overdose deaths: United States, 2011–2016. 
• Recent increases in injury mortality among children and adolescents aged 10–19 years in the United States: 1999–2016.

Rapid Release Report

• Early provisional estimates of drug overdose, suicide, and transportation-related deaths: Nowcasting methods to account for reporting lags.
• Methods to adjust provisional counts of drug overdose deaths for underreporting. 
• Timeliness of death certificate data for suicides. 

NCHS Health E-stat

• Drug poisoning mortality, by state and by race and ethnicity: United States, 2019.
• Suicide rates for females and males by race and ethnicity: United States, 1999 and 2017. 

Quickstats

• Injury deaths as a percentage of total deaths, by age group — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2019. 
• Age-adjusted death rates for four selected mechanisms of injury — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 1979–2019.
• Adjusted death rates for motor vehicle traffic injury — United States, 2019.
• Rates of firearm-related deaths among persons aged ≥15 years, by selected intent and age groups — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2019. 
• Motor vehicle traffic death rates among persons aged 15–24 years and ≥25 years — United States, 2000–2019.
• Death rates attributed to excessive cold or hypothermia among persons aged ≥15 years, by urban-rural status and age group — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2019.
• Death rates for motor vehicle traffic injuries, suicide, and homicide among adolescents and young adults aged 15–24 years — United States, 1999–2019.
• Emergency department visit rates for motor vehicle crashes, by age group — United States, 2018. 
• Death rates from unintentional falls among persons aged ≥65 years, by age group — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 1999–2018.
• Rate of unintentional traumatic brain injury (TBI)–related deaths among persons aged ≤24 years, by age group — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 1999–2018.
• Age-adjusted pedestrian death rates, by race/ethnicity — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2009 and 2018.
• Rates of deaths attributed to unintentional injury from fire or flames, by age group and urbanization level — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2018.
• Number of natural heat-related deaths, by sex and age group — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2018. 
• Age-adjusted suicide rates, by state — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2018. 
• Age-adjusted drug overdose death rates, by state — United States, 2018.
• Age-adjusted suicide rates, by sex and three most common methods — United States, 2000–2018.
• Number of emergency department visits for substance abuse or dependence per 10,000 persons aged ≥18 years, by age group — United States, 2008–2009 and 2016–2017.
• Age-adjusted rates of drug overdose deaths involving heroin, by race/ethnicity — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 1999–2017.
• Age-adjusted rates of suicide, by state— National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2017.
• Rate of alcohol-induced deaths among persons aged ≥25 years, by age group — National Vital Statistics System, 1999–2017.
• Percentage of deaths from external causes, by age group — United States, 2017. 
• Number of deaths from hornet, wasp, and bee stings, among males and females — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2000–2017.
• Percentage distribution of deaths involving injuries from recreational and nonrecreational use of watercraft, by month — United States, 2015–2017.
• Age-adjusted motor vehicle traffic death rates, by urban-rural status and sex — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2017.
• Rates of injury from sports, recreation, and leisure activities among children and adolescents aged 1–17 years, by age group — National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2015–2017.
• Percentage of employed adults aged ≥18 years with any work-loss days because of illness or injury in the past 12 months, by sex and age group — National Health Interview Survey, 2017.
• Injury death rates for persons aged 15–19 years, by intent — United States, 1999–2017.
• Death rates attributed to excessive cold or hypothermia among persons aged ≥15 years, by urbanization level and age group — National Vital Statistics System, 2015–2017.
• Death rates for motor vehicle traffic injury, by age group — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2015 and 2017.
• Percentage of persons of all ages who had a medically attended injury during the past 3 months, by age group — National Health Interview Survey, 2015–2017.
• Age-adjusted death rates from unintentional falls among adults aged ≥65 years, by sex — National Vital Statistics System, 1999–2016.
• Percentage of residential care community residents with a fall, by Census Region — United States, 2016.
• Age-adjusted death rates for motor vehicle traffic injury — United States, 2016.
• Number of homicides committed, by the three most common methods — United States, 2010–2016.
• Percentage of injury deaths that occurred in the decedent’s home for the five most common causes of injury death — United States, 2016.
• Homicide and suicide death rates for persons aged 15–19 years — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 1999–2016.
• Age-adjusted death rates from unintentional falls among adults aged ≥65 years, by race/ethnicity — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2001–2016.
• Age-adjusted homicide rates, by race/ethnicity — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2015–2016.
• Age-adjusted suicide rates, by race/ethnicity — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2015–2016.
• Age-adjusted death rates for drug overdose, by race/ethnicity — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2015–2016.

Other Reports

• Use of ICD-10-CM coded hospitalization and emergency department data for injury surveillance Inj Prev 2021;27:i1–i2. https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043515.
• Data quality considerations when using county-level opioid overdose death rates to inform policy and practice. Letter to the Editor. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.107549
• The need to improve information on road user type in National Vital Statistics System mortality data. Traffic Injury Prevention, 20:3, 276-281, DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2019.1576036. 2019.
• A Bayesian spatial and temporal modeling approach to mapping geographic variation in mortality rates for subnational areas. Journal of Data Science 16 (2018), 147-182.
• County-level trends in suicide rates in the U.S., 2005-2015. American J Preventive Medicine 2018; 55(1):72–79.
• Identifying Opioid Overdose Deaths Using Vital Statistics Data. American Journal of Public Health 108, no. 12 (December 1, 2018):pp. 1587-1589.