TABLE 1. Estimated number of emergency department visits,* hospitalizations,† and deaths,§ and the number and proportion that were attributable to injury and traumatic brain injury — United States, 2013.
Event | Total |
Injuries |
TBIs |
|||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. | No. | % of total events | No. | % of injuries | % of total events | |
Emergency department visit |
113,370,448
|
24,597,345 |
21.7 |
2,460,420 |
10.0 |
2.2 |
Hospitalization |
33,288,183
|
1,554,104 |
4.7 |
281,610 |
18.1 |
0.9 |
Death |
2,596,993
|
192,945 |
7.4 |
55,927 |
29.9 |
2.2 |
Total | 149,255,624 | 26,344,394 | 17.7 | 2,797,957 | 10.6 | 1.9 |
Sources: For emergency department visits, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project’s (HCUP) Nationwide Emergency Department Sample; for hospitalizations, HCUP’s National Inpatient Sample; for deaths, CDC’s National Vital Statistics System.
Abbreviation: TBIs = traumatic brain injuries.
*Persons who were hospitalized, died, or transferred to another facility were excluded.
†In-hospital deaths and patients who transferred from another hospital were excluded.
§Record-Axis Condition codes were used (usually included both Part I and Part II of Entity-Axis Condition codes).