Strategies to improve external cause-of-injury coding in state-based hospital discharge and emergency department data systems: recommendations of the CDC Workgroup for Improvement of External Cause-of-Injury Coding.

Each year, an estimated 50 million persons in the United States experience injuries that require medical attention. A substantial number of these persons are treated in an emergency department (ED) or a hospital, which collects their health-care data for administrative purposes. State-based morbidit...

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Published in:	MMWR Recommendations & Reports Vol. 57; no. RR-1; pp. 1 - 16
Main Authors:	Annest JL, Fingerhut LA, Gallagher SS, Grossman DC, Hedegaard H, Johnson RL, Kohn M, Pickett D, Thomas KE, Trent RB
Format:	CEU exam questions pictorial tables/charts Journal Article
Published:	Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) 3/28/2008
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost