Notice to Readers: Injury-Related Mortality Reports Database Available on Internet
WISQARS (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting
System), pronounced "whiskers," is an interactive system that provides
injury-related
mortality data useful for research and for making informed public health decisions.
Mortality data for 1981--1997 are produced in two report formats: 1) Injury Mortality
Reports, which can be used to determine injury deaths and death rates for specific
external causes of injuries, and 2) Leading Causes of Death Reports, which can be used
to determine the number of injury-related deaths relative to the number of other
leading causes of death in the United States or in individual states. The report is available
at http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars
.
Both reports are available by year, age, race, sex, Hispanic origin, and
state. Reports can be requested by 5year age ranges (e.g., 0--4 years or 5--9 years) or
a custom-defined range (e.g., 13--19 years or all 6-year-olds only). Race categories
are white, black, American Indian/Alaskan Native, Asian and Pacific Islander, and other
(all nonwhite and nonblack and may include other races not listed). In addition,
Injury Mortality Reports can be requested by these specific definitions and other
parameters (e.g., a report for a mechanism/cause and manner/intent in a specific state by sex
and race).
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