injuries: National Electronic Injury Surveillance System

Description Usage Format Source

Description

The NEISS is a probability sample of hospital emergency departments in the United States and its territories. This data set contains data from last five years.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 2,332,957 rows and 18 variables:

case_num

A unique identifer for each case

trmt_date

Date of treatment

psu

Primary sampling unit (hospital) identifier

weight

Weights adjusted for non-response, hospitals mergers and changes in sampling frame. Sum these weights to get national estimate.

stratum
age

Age. Rounded to nearest month if under than 2, otherwise rounded to nearest year

sex

Sex: male, female, or unknown.

race

7-level race

race_other

Optional free form text for other races

diag

Diagnosis code. If multiple diagnoses, this is the most severe

diag_other

Free text for "other" diagnoses

body_part

Most seriously injured body part

disposition

Final disposition of case after university visit

location

Locale where injury occurred.

fmv

Fire department involvement

prod1,prod2

Consumer product codes. Order is not important.

narrative

Description of what victim was doing, products involved, and locale of the incident (all upper case).

Source

http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Research–Statistics/NEISS-Injury-Data/


hadley/neiss documentation built on May 17, 2019, 11:04 a.m.