TABLE 4. Estimated number* and age-adjusted rate of traumatic brain injury–related emergency department visits,† hospitalizations,§ and deaths,¶ by sex and mechanism of injury — United States, 2013.
| Sex | Unintentional motor-vehicle crashes |
Unintentional falls** |
Unintentionally struck by or against an object |
Other unintentional injury, mechanism unspecified†† |
Intentional self-harm |
Assault or homicide |
Other or no mechanism specified§§ |
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| No. | Rate¶¶ (95% CI) | No. | Rate (95% CI) | No. | Rate (95% CI) | No. | Rate (95% CI) | No. | Rate (95% CI) | No. | Rate (95% CI) | No. | Rate (95% CI) | |
| Male |
201,012 |
128.2 (124.8–131.5) |
603,444 |
400.7 (388.7–412.8) |
253,848 |
167.3 (160.9–173.7) |
119,637 |
77.4 (74.9–79.9) |
18,509 |
11.7 (11.5–12.0) |
149,271 |
96.0 (92.8–99.1) |
118,904 |
77.7 (70.1–85.2) |
| Female |
182,220 |
115.5 (112.3–118.8)*** |
716,915 |
417.7 (405.9–429.4)*** |
176,975 |
115.6 (111.7–119.5)*** |
71,306 |
45.1 (43.3–47.0) |
3,760 |
2.3 (2.2–2.4)*** |
83,554 |
54.8 (52.7–57.0)*** |
98,225 |
59.8 (53.8–65.7) |
| Total | 383,231 | 121.7 (118.6–124.9) | 1,320,360 | 413.2 (401.4–425.0) | 430,822 | 142.1 (137.1–147.2) | 190,944 | 61.3 (59.2–63.4) | 22,270 | 6.8 (6.7–7.0) | 232,828 | 75.4 (73.0–77.9) | 217,129 | 68.9 (62.3–75.6) |
Sources: For emergency department visits, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project’s (HCUP) Nationwide Emergency Department Sample; for hospitalizations, HCUP’s National Sample; for deaths, CDC’s National Vital Statistics System.
Abbreviations: CI = confidence interval; TBI = traumatic brain injury.
*Visits with missing age were excluded. Numbers subject to rounding error.
†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).
**Includes falls of undetermined intent to maintain consistency with past data releases.
††E-codes specify that the injury was unintentional but do not specify the actual mechanism of injury.
§§Includes TBIs in which the intent was not determined as well as those due to legal intervention or war. Includes TBIs in which no mechanism was specified in the record. Does not include falls of undetermined intent.
¶¶Per 100,000 population.
***Significant difference in rate compared to men based on t-test (p<0.05). Only selected comparisons were tested for statistical significance.