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Sources of data on injury. Some data sources include a query-based system to create customized data reports. Items about the process of surveillance are also included.

Current trends operational criteria for determining suicide
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwR/preview/mmwrhtml/00001318.htm
This is a document from 1988 that contains operational criteria to assist coroners and medical examiners in determining suicide. The criteria were arrived at by a working group representing coroners, medical examiners, statisticians, and public health agencies.
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Deaths from violence: A look at 17 states. - Data from the National Violent Death Reporting System
URL: http://www.hss.state.ak.us/dph/ipems/AKVDRS/assets/NVDRS-17States.pdf
This report, the first product of the State Violent Death Reporting System (VDRS) Workgroup, highlights the state-level similarities and differences in the numbers, characteristics and circumstances of deaths from violence. Two-page summaries from each of 17 VDRS states describe the following violent deaths' data: the frequency; at-risk populations; circumstances; means or methods; and examples of how VDRS data are used to support state and local prevention efforts. In every state except Maryland and the selected sites in California, suicides outnumbered homicides. In Oregon and Utah, the annual number of suicides was more than five times that of homicides.
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Injury and Data Resources from NCHS
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/injury.htm
The purpose of this Web site is to provide an overview of the sources of national level injury data available from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and to provide details on the injury morbidity and mortality data collection systems, surveys and coding schemes used to collect and categorize the data. Links to other injury data are provided. The data also includes suicide and self-injury statistics.
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Methodology of the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5312a1.htm
From the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, September 24, 2004 / 53(RR12);1-13. This report describes the background and rationale for YRBSS and includes a detailed description of the methodologic features of the system, including its questionnaire; operational procedures; sampling, weighting, and response rates; data-collection protocols; data-processing procedures; reports and publications; and data quality. YRBSS is evolving to meet the needs of CDC and other users of the data. (Description from the summary.)
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National Violent Death Reporting System: Lessons learned from 17 States, 2002-2006- Executive Summary
URL: http://www.stipda.org/associations/5805/files/exec_nvdrs_LL_2007.pdf
In 2006, STIPDA, through its cooperative agreement with CDC, conducted telephone interviews with National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) program staff in the 17 NVDRS-funded states for the purpose of gathering detailed information about states' experiences applying for, implementing and evaluating the NVDRS. This report compiles their lessons learned and strategies for improvement. The report is intended to benefit states planning to apply for an NVDRS cooperative agreement - as well as those in the first year or two of implementation - by demonstrating how to smooth and accelerate the application, the set up and the implementation of the NVDRS in a state, and avoid repeating common dilemmas in these processes. Full report available for STIPDA Members at www.stipda.org
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NVDRS and suicide: How the National Violent Death Reporting System is being used to prevent suicide
URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/UsingNVDRS_FactSheet.pdf
This fact sheet highlight ways in which National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) data have been used for suicide prevention.
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NVDRS: National Violent Death Reporting System
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/profiles/nvdrs/default.htm
State and local agencies use this system to input detailed information from medical examiners, coroners, police, crime labs and death certificates that could answer important fundamental questions about violence. NVDRS then pools these valuable data to better depict the scope and nature of violence.
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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
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwR/pdf/rr/rr5701.pdf
MMWR. March 28, 2008; 57(RR-1): 1-24. Discusses the value of using high-quality E-coding to collect data in state-based morbidity data systems. Provides recommendations on: improving communication regarding E-coding among stakeholders; enhancing the completeness and accuracy of E-coding; and making E-coded data more useful for injury surveillance and prevention activities at the local, state, and federal levels.
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Strategies to improve non-fatal suicide attempt surveillance: Recommendations from an expert roundtable
URL: http://www.stipda.org/associations/5805/files/SPANsurveillance06.pdf
This report reviews current public health surveillance activities, and systems. The report expresses a great concern about the lack of resources and infrastructure within state and local health departments to conduct suicide surveillance, conduct epidemiologic analysis and disseminate data.
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Surveillance for violent deaths - National Violent Death Reporting System, 16 states, 2005
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5703a1.htm
MMWR. April 11, 2008; 57(SS03):1-43,45. This report, for the first time since the creation of NVDRS, summarizes and examines data on nearly 16,000 violent deaths occurring in 16 states surveyed by the system in 2005. The majority (56.1%) of deaths were suicides, followed by homicides and deaths involving legal interventions (29.6%).
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Surveillance for violent deaths. - National Violent Death Reporting System, 16 states, 2006
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5801a1.htm
MMWR. March 20, 2009; 58(SS01):1-44. This report is the second summary of data from the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS). According to the report, 15,395 violent deaths were recorded in 16 NVDRS states in 2006, of which 56 percent were suicides. Suicides were: occurring at higher rates among males, American Indians/Alaska Natives, non-Hispanic whites, and persons aged 45-54 years; most often occurring in a house or apartment and involving the use of firearms; precipitated primarily by mental-health, intimate-partner, or physical-health problems or by a crisis during the preceding 2 weeks.
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Ten leading causes of death and injury (charts)
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/LeadingCauses.html
Color charts of: All causes of deaths by age group; Causes of nonfatal injuries treated in US hospital emergency departments; Causes of injury death highlighting unintentional injury; Causes of injury death highlighting violence (including suicide). Charts are provided for the two most recent years of data available (2005 and 2006 in most instances; 2007 for nonfatal) and are available as pdf and jpg files.
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Understanding U.S. suicide trends, 1985-2004
URL: http://www.sprc.org/traininginstitute/disc_series/disc_12.asp
A presentation on suicide rates in recent years which examines trends in suicide rates for various demographic groups, with particular attention to surveillance methods used, and discusses some of the factors that may be driving the trends. The Research to Practice webinar webpage contains PowerPoint slides and an audio file of the discussion.
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WISQARS (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System): Fatal Injuries: Mortality Reports
URL: http://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate.html
A database of U.S. injury mortality data that generates tables of injury deaths and death rates by particular causes of injury mortality. You may select outputs by 5 year age groups or by single year of age. The mortality data reported in WISQARSTM Fatal and on National Center for Injury Prevention and Control web pages come from death certificate data reported to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC. NCHS collects, compiles, verifies and prepares these data for release to the public. The process takes approximately 18 months after the end of a given year. For example, 2003 mortality data will be available from NCHS in the third quarter (summer) of 2005. Once the data are released, NCIPC require additional time to prepare the Web pages. You may expect to see 2003 mortality data available on WISQARSTM the fourth quarter (fall) of 2005.
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Young adult suicide & student status: Findings from a pilot for the National Violent Death Reporting System
URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/YouthSuicideStudentStatus.pdf
This fact sheet contains analyzed data from NVISS, a precursor to the CDC's National Violent Death Reporting System, that determines how many of the 18-24 year-old suicide decedents were and were not students at a college or other post secondary education program. The fact sheet also compares characteristics of non-student and student suicides to identify opportunities for prevention in both groups.
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Youth suicide: Findings from a pilot for the National Violent Death Reporting System
URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/YouthSuicideFactSheet.pdf
This fact sheet contains analyzed data from NVISS, a precursor to the CDC's National Violent Death Reporting System that offers information about issues surrounding youth (under age 18) at the time of death and methods used.
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YRBSS: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/yrbs/index.htm
The YRBSS was developed in 1990 to monitor priority health risk behaviors that contribute markedly to the leading causes of death, disability, and social problems among youth and adults in the United States.
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