National Data Source:

National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS), CDC, NCHS.

State Data Source:

State hospital discharge systems.

Healthy People 2000 Objective:

9.10 (Unintentional Injuries), age adjusted to 2000 standard population.

Measure:

Rate per 100,000 population (age adjusted—see Comments).

Baseline:

4.5 (1998).

Numerator:

Number of hospitalizations for nonfatal spinal cord injuries (principal diagnosis of ICD-9-CM codes 806, 952).

Denominator:

Number of persons.

Population Targeted:

U.S. civilian population.

Questions Used To Obtain the National Data:

Final Diagnoses (Including E-code diagnoses)

Principal Diagnosis

Expected Periodicity:

Annual.

Comments:

Principal diagnosis is the diagnosis chiefly responsible for admission of the person to the hospital.

Data are age-adjusted to the 2000 standard population. Age-adjusted rates are the weighted sums of age-specific rates.

Description of Age Adjustment

Description of the NHDS

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