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. 2017 Mar 17;66(9):1–16. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.ss6609a1

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).