All Injuries

(Data are for the U.S.)

Morbidity

• Number of medically attended injury and poisoning episodes in the noninstitutionalized population: 37.9 million
• Episodes per 1,000 population: 123.8

Source: Summary Health Statistics for the U.S. Population: National Health Interview Survey, 2011, table 8 [PDF - 1 MB]

Health care use

Ambulatory care

• Number of visits (to physician offices, hospital outpatient and emergency departments) for injuries: 80.2 million (average annual, 2006-2007, includes visits for adverse effects of medical treatment)

Sources: National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2009 Summary Tables, table 12 [PDF - 382 KB]
National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2009 Outpatient Department Summary Tables, table 10 [PDF - 330 KB]
National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2009 Emergency Department Summary Tables, table 11 [PDF - 481 KB]
(data shown are based on summing estimates across these 3 tables)

• Number of emergency department visits for injuries: 45.4 million (includes visits for adverse effects of medical treatment)

Source: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2009 Emergency Department Summary Tables, table 16 [PDF - 481 KB]

Hospital inpatient care

• Number of discharges for fractures (all sites): 1.1 million
• Number of discharges for poisonings: 292,000
• Number of discharges for certain complications of surgical and medical care: 1.0 million

Source: National Hospital Discharge Survey: 2009 tables, Average length of stay and days of care - Number and rate of discharges by first-listed diagnostic categories [PDF - 58 KB]

Mortality

All injury deaths

• Number of deaths: 180,811
• Deaths per 100,000 population: 58.6

Motor vehicle traffic deaths

• Number of deaths: 33,687
• Deaths per 100,000 population: 10.9

All poisoning deaths

• Number of deaths: 42,917
• Deaths per 100,000 population: 13.9

All firearm deaths

• Number of deaths: 31,672
• Deaths per 100,000 population: 10.3

Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2010, table 18 [PDF - 3.1 MB]

More data

• Accidents/ Unintentional Injuries
• Assault/Homicide
• CDC WONDER-Multiple Cause-of-Death Data
• CDC WONDER - Underlying Cause of Death
• Deaths: Leading Causes for 2009 [PDF - 2.5 MB]
• Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2011 [PDF - 1.7 MB]
• Drug Poisoning Deaths in the United States, 1980–2008
• Health, United States trend tables on injury
• Injury Episodes and Circumstances: National Health Interview Survey: 1997-2007 [PDF - 777 KB]
• Injury in the United States, 2007 Chart book [PDF - 6.6 MB]
• NCHS Fact Sheet - NCHS Data on Injuries
• Search Tables for Injuries in Health Data Interactive
• Self-inflicted Injury/Suicide
• Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)