The Florida Injury Surveillance System is used to monitor the frequency of fatal and non-fatal injuries, determine the risk factors, evaluate the completeness, timeliness, and quality of data sources, and provide information to Florida’s injury prevention community for program planning and evaluation.
The data system is modeled after the consensus recommendations developed through the Safe States Alliance.
The Florida Injury Surveillance System uses multiple data sources, including, but not limited to:
- Child Death Review
- Emergency Medical Services
- Poison Control
- Trauma Registry
- Florida Department of Law Enforcement Statistics
- Florida Youth Survey System
* A primary source
Profiles and Dashboards
Profiles and dashboards on FL Health CHARTS display counts and rates for injury, violence, and behavioral health utilizing multiple data sources.
Leading Injuries
Tables and graphs showing the leading injury mechanisms across different age groups.
- Leading Fatal Injuries
Data Source: DeathStat Database, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Florida Department of Health - Leading Non-Fatal Injuries
Data Source: Hospital Inpatient Discharge Data, Florida Agency for Health Care Administration
Additional Data Systems
- National Center for Health Statistics, Injury Data and Resources
- Florida Violent Death Reporting System
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System
- Safe States Alliance Injury Surveillance Workgroup Publications
- CDC Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
- U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, National Electronic Injury Surveillance System
- American Association of Poison Control, National Poison Data System
Data Resources
Injury Epidemiology
An open-access academic journal, including, but not limited to, morbidity and mortality from motor vehicle crashes, drug overdose/poisoning, falls, drowning, fires/burns, iatrogenic injury, suicide, homicide, assaults, and abuse.
Safe States Alliance
Provides injury surveillance workgroup publications.
WISQARS
Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System
Hospital Inpatient and Emergency Department Data
- Data may contain multiple hospitalizations or visits for the same person/injury event due to hospital transfers, readmissions, and follow-up visits. Therefore, the data reflects the number of hospitalizations and emergency department visits and not the number of people injured.
- Hospital record data uses the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM). Differences between counts and rates in years prior to 2015 compared with 2015 and subsequent years could be a result of this coding change and not an actual difference in the number of events.
- Data for specific mechanisms of injury may be underestimated due to incomplete reporting of the external cause of injury as an ICD-9-CM or ICD-10-CM code. Uncoded hospitalizations and emergency department visits are labeled “Not E Coded.”
- Trends between ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM should not be compared as these coding systems are different from each other.