Vital and Health Statistics, Series 10, Number 241: Injury Episodes and Circumstances: National Health Interview Survey, 1997-2007

摘要

This report presents estimates of nonfatal, medically attended injury episodes by some of the many factors included in NHIS and covers the 11-year period from 1997 through 2007. In 1997, the NHIS questionnaire was redesigned and included more detailed questions on injuries than in previous years. Injury estimates have always been available from NHIS, but prior to 1997, the injury statistics extracted from NHIS lacked detail about the circumstances of the events resulting in the injury. Revisions to the injury section of the questionnaire were implemented in 2000 and 2004. The majority of the estimates in this report are annual averages for the three time periods bounded by the revision years: 1991-1999, 2000-2003, and 2004-2007.