Table 2.

Data sources used to assess and review injuries of interest.

Data source	n, %
Electronic medical records	47, 24.9%
Patient files, logs, presentations, in-patient and outpatient data, chart reviews, clinical/triage/call notes and reports, discharge summaries, anesthetic charts	42, 22.2%
Registries (i.e., trauma, emergency department, health record, clinical data, burn)	34, 18.0%
Patient admissions	32, 16.9%
Database review (i.e., hospitals, daily death certificates, trauma admissions, emergency department, patient, poisonings, referrals)	26, 13.8%
Governmental, police, or non-profit organization	14, 7.4%
Procedure room/theater/surgery lists	10, 5.3%
Imaging (e.g., CT, radiographs)	9, 4.2%
Google trends/Map Quest/Microsoft Bing services	5, 2.6%
Online survey	4, 2.1%
Publicly available data	3, 1.6%
Other: trauma activations, ambulance activations, phone counseling sessions, prehospital records, consult data, trauma handover list, autopsies, triage register, helicopter emergency requests	11, 5.8%
Media reports	1*

*Negligible percentage.