ICE Projects

Reporting Frameworks

Injury Mortality Diagnosis Matrix

• ICD-10 Framework: Injury Mortality Diagnosis Matrix
• ICD-10 Codes for the Matrix [PDF - 65 KB] (updated February 14, 2006)
• Number of Injury Diagnosis Mentions: US, 2002 [PDF - 262 KB] (November 2005)
• Detailed ICD-10 Code Listing for All Injury Diagnosis Codes (November 2005)
• Contact: Lois A. Fingerhut

External Cause of Injury Matrix

• Trends and Patterns of Injury Deaths Using the ICE Matrix, England and Wales, 1979-2004 (Sept 2006) [PPT - 171 KB]
  Contact: Cleo Rooney
• WHO Center Heads for Classification meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland (October 2004)
  PDF Version (367 KB)
  PPT Version (420 KB)
  Contact: Lois A. Fingerhut
• ICD-10 Injury Mortality Framework Documents (November 2002)
  Contact: Lois A. Fingerhut
• ICD-9 Framework for Presenting Injury Mortality Data - External Cause (August 1997)
  Contacts: Lee Annest, Lois A. Fingerhut , or Elizabeth McLoughlin

Injury Diagnosis Matrix - Barell Matrix

• Barell Matrix - Moving to ICD-10 [PPT - 109 KB] (May 2004)
  Contact: Lois A. Fingerhut
• The Barell Injury Diagnosis Matrix, Classification by Body Region and Nature of the Injury (November 2005)
  The cell for Burns to Other and unspecified lower extremities should be 945.x0, .x9 rather than 945.x0-.x9 (as it was originally written). The SAS code is correct.
  Contacts: Ellen MacKenzie, Limor Aharonson-Daniel,
  Megan Davies, or Lois A. Fingerhut
• The Barell Matrix Updates: The Composition of TBI Rows Multiple Injury Analysis [PPT - 1.2 MB] (May 2002)
  Contacts: Limor Aharonson-Daniel and Megan Davies
• ICE 2004 Update: Multiple Injury Profiles (June 2004)
  PPT Version (857 KB)
  Contact: Limor Aharonson-Daniel
• Proposed Methodology for Building Multiple Injury Profile (MIP) (April 2003), Proceedings of the ICE on Injury Statistics, Volume IV
  Contact: Limor Aharonson-Daniel

ICD Comparability

• US ICD-9/ICD10 Comparability for Injury [PPT - 177 KB] (June 2004)
  Contact: Margaret Warner

Injury Indicators

March 2008

• Searching for consensus in a list of indicators - Mission Possible [PPT - 731 KB]
  Desirable properties for our indicators [PPT - 338 KB]
  Contacts: Colin Cryer and Maria Segui Gomez
• An Indicator for mortality: Thinking beyond external cause (Selecting a main injury final report to MRG) [PPT - 354 KB]
  Contacts: Margaret Warner, Rolf Gedeborg, Li-Hui Chen

September 2006

• A Model for the Development of Indicators of Injury Incidence [PPT - 1.1 MB]
  Contacts: Colin Cryer and James Harrison
• Indicator of Injury Incidence: Probability of Admission to Hospital [PPT - 72 KB]
  Contacts: Colin Cryer
• Proportion of Patients Admitted Following Injury: Setting A "Frame" for Analysis of Variation with Diagnosis, Calendar Year, Age and Sex? [PPT - 3.3 MB]
  Contacts: Jens Lauritsen
• US Emergency Department Data: A Source for Injury Indicator Development [PPT - 212 KB] (Sept 2006)
  Contacts: Lois Fingerhut
• Injury Surveillance in Australia: Aims and Issues [PPT - 912 KB]
  Contacts: James Harrison
• Population-based Injury Data in Ontario [PPT - 711 KB]
  Contacts: Alison Macpherson
• Defining Injuries with Emergency Department Data: A Recommendation from the United States [PPT - 205 KB]
  Contacts: Lois Fingerhut
• Probability of Admission: Further Data Sources and Issues [PPT - 137 KB]
  Contacts: Colin Cryer
• Issues [PPT - 47 KB]

June 2005

• Injury Indicators: Purposes, Progress, Prognosis [PPT - 5.8 MB]
  Contact: James Harrison
• ICE Injury Indicators Group: Update of Work [PPT - 1.6 MB]
  Contact: Colin Cryer and John Langley

June 2004

• Injury Indicators Update
  PPT Version (413 KB)
  Contact: Colin Cryer
• Injury Severity Discussion of ICISS and ICDMAP [PPT - 111 KB]
  Contacts: Lois A. Fingerhut and Ellen MacKenzie

April 2003

• ICE Injury Indicators Group (ICEIInG) - Progress Report, aspirations, goals, and strategy development,
  Proceedings of the ICE on Injury Statistics, Volume IV
  Contact: Colin Cryer

May 2002

• Injury Indicators: Additional Validation Criteria [PPT - 100 KB]
  Contact: Colin Cryer
• Injury Indicators: A Validation Tool [PDF - 56 KB]
• Recommendations for Australian Injury Indicators [PPT - 154 KB]
  Contacts: James Harrison and Malinda Steenkamp

April 2001

• Injury Indicators
  Contact: Colin Cryer

Injury Severity

• Introduction to Measures of Severity [PPT - 62 KB] (Sept 2006)
  Contacts: Lois Fingerhut, NCHS
• International Classification of Diseases Injury Severity Scale (ICISS) [PPT - 142 KB] (Sept 2006)
  Contacts: John Langley, Canada
• Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) [PPT - 145 KB] (Sept 2006)
  Contacts: Maria Segui-Gomez

Multiple Cause of Death

• Selecting A Main Injury [PPT - 70 KB] (Sept 2006)
  Contacts:Margaret Warner
• The Mortality Reference Group [PPT - 178 KB] (Sept 2006)
  Contacts: Robert Anderson
• Selecting A Main Injury From Multiple Causes of Death [PPT - 187 KB] (Sept 2006)
  Contacts: Margaret Warner
• Issues [PPT - 291 KB] (Sept 2006)
  Contacts: Limor Aharonson-Daniel
• Discussion [PPT - 40 KB] (Sept 2006)
  Contacts: Cleo Rooney and Maria Segui-Gomez
• Multiple Cause of Injury Data: Selecting a Main Injury [PPT - 193 KB] (June 2005)
  Contact: Margaret Warner
• Selecting A Main Injury From Multiple Causes of Death: Step 1 Common Pairs [PPT - 173 KB] (June 2004)
  Contact: Margaret Warner
• Selecting A Main Injury From Among The Multiple Causes of Death (April 2003), Proceedings of the ICE on Injury Statistics, Volume IV
  Contact: Margaret Warner
• Multiple Cause of Death Data and Poisoning [PPT - 235 KB] (April 2001)
  Contacts: Cleo Rooney or Margaret Warner

International Classification of External Causes of Injury (ICECI)

• International Classification of External Causes of Injuries (ICECI) [PPT - 145 KB] (September 2006) Contacts: Saakje Mulder, The Netherlands
• International Classification of External Cause of Injuries (ICECI) [PPT - 1.3 MB] (June 2005)
  Contact: Saakje Mulder
• ICE on Injury, ICECI, Surveillance Guidelines and Violence Indicators [PPT - 350 KB] (June 2005)
  Contact: Yvette Holder
• International Classification of External Cause of Injuries (ICECI): An Update (April 2003), Proceedings of the ICE on Injury Statistics, Volume IV
  Contact: Saakje Mulder
• Update on ICECI [PPT - 90 KB] (May 2002)
  Contact: Margie Peden
• Data Dictionary [PPT - 81 KB] (April 2001)
  Contact: Saakje Mulder
• Minimum Data Sets [PPT - 198 KB] (April 2001)
  Contact: Yvette Holder
• Chapter XX Group Report [PDF - 17 KB] (April 2001)
  Contact: James Harrison or Donna Pickett
• Comparability to ICD-10 [PDF - 14 KB] (April 2001)
  Contact: James Harrison
• CDC's Short Version of the ICECI -- A Pilot Test [PPT - 191 KB] (April 2001)
  Contact: Lee Annest
• European Surveillance [PPT - 117 KB] (April 2001)
  Contacts: Saakje Mulder or Anneke Bloemhoff
• Technical Comparability Between the ICECI 1.0 and ICD-10 (May 2002)
  Contact: James Harrison

Injury Surveillance Systems - Morbidity and Mortality

• Summary of Injury Surveillance Systems Internationally [PPT - 37 KB] (Sept 2006)
  Contact: Yvette Holder
• Estimating the South African Trauma Caseload: Implications for Rapid Surveillance of Non-Fatal Injuries [PPT - 164 KB] (Sept 2006)
  Contact: Olive Kobusingye for R. Matzopoulous
• El Salvador Injury Surveillance System [PPT - 1 MB] (Sept 2006)
  Contact: Oscar Salinas and Carme Clavel-Arcas
• APOLLO W2 Core Project: Burden of Injuries in Europe [PPT - 316 KB] (Sept 2006)
  Contact: Maria Segui-Gomez and Saakje Mulder
• Injury Database (IDB): An Indispensable Injury Surveillance Tool for the European Union [PPT - 291 KB] (Sept 2006)
  Contact: Birthe Frimodt-Moller
• Gender Based Violence Surveillance, The Belize Experience [PPT - 80 KB] (Sept 2006)
  Contact: Marlene Francis, CAREC
• Injury Surveillance in Trinidad: The San Fernando General Hospital Experience [PPT - 171 KB] (Sept 2006)
  Contact: Roanna Bynoe
• Injury Surveillance in Countries of the African Region [PPT - 181 KB] (Sept 2006)
  Contact: Olive Kobusingye, WHO Africa
• Pan American Health Organization Injury Statistics Activities [PPT - 5.1 MB] (Sept 2006)
  Contact: Carme Clavel-Arcas and Roberto Becker, Pan American Health Organization

Mexico

• Injury Information Systems in Mexico, Progress and Challenges [PPT - 1.6 MB] (June 2005)
  Contact: Rafael Lozano and Martha Hijar
• Injury Data Classification on Injury Research: The Pedestrian Injuries Case in Mexico [PPT - 1.6 MB] (June 2005)
  Contacts: Martha Hijar

Brazil

• Mortality Data Collection and Public Hospitalization Data in Brazil [PPT - 439 KB] (June 2005)
  Contacts: Eugenia M S Rodriques and Vilma Pinheiro Gawryszewski
• The Impact of Firearm on Public Health in Brazil [PPT - 4.9 MB] (June 2005)
  Contact: Luciana Barreto Phebo

Nicaragua

• Hospital-based Injury Surveillance System (HBISS) in Nicaragua [PPT - 1.2 MB] (June 2005)
  Contacts: Francisco Tercero and Julio Rocha

Colombia

• External Causes Mortality Surveillance System in Colombia: A Successful Model [PPT - 7.2 MB] (June 2005)
  Contacts: Maria Isabel Gutierrez Martinez, Rafael Espinosa del Vallin, Andres Fandino-Losada, Edgar Munoz
• ICECI Application in Injury Surveillance in Cali, Colombia [PPT - 486 KB] (June 2005)
  Contacts: Andres Fandino-Losada, Edgar Munoz , Maria Isabel Gutierrez Martinez

Barbados

• Strengthening Violence and Injury Surveillance in Eastern Caribbean: Challenges and Opportunities [PPT - 606 KB] (June 2005)
  Contact: Patricia Brandon

Puerto Rico

• Organizing a Pilot Project on Violent Injury Surveillance: Opportunities and Obstacles [PPT - 1 MB] (June 2005)
  Contact: Diego E. Zavala

Jamaica

• Jamaican Injury Surveillance System [PPT - 386 KB] (June 2005)
  Contact: Ron Hebert, Heron Technology

Argentina

• Pediatric Trauma Program: Pediatric Trauma Registry and Information Systems for Epidemiology Reserach, Control and Surveillance of Injuries in Argentina [PPT - 4.2 MB] (June 2005)
  Contact: Alberto E. Inon
• Developing A National Injury Surveillance System [PPT - 170 KB] (June 2005)
  Contact: Marta Vacchino
• Overview of Injury Mortality [PPT - 2 MB] (June 2005)
  Contact: Ingrid Waisman

Africa

• WHO Supported Injury Surveillance in Africa [PPT - 185 KB] (June 2005)
  Contacts: Olive Kobusingye (WHO AFRO), Kidist Bartolomeos, (WHO Mozambique), Malin Ahrne (WHO Ethiopia), Muluken Melese (WHO Ethiopia), Milton Muto (ICC-U Uganda) [given by Ian Scott]

South Africa

• The National Injury Mortality Surveillance System: An Overview of Fatal Injury Surveillance in South Africa [PPT - 812 KB] (June 2005)
  Contact: Richard Matzapoulous

Thailand

• From Provincial to National: The Development of Thailand Injury Surveillance [PPT - 407 KB] (June 2005)
  Contacts: Chamaiparn Stantikarn and Siriwan Santijiarakul

Nicaragua, El Salvador and Colombia

• Implementing a Hospital-based Injury Surveillance Systems in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Columbia [PPT - 5.3 MB] (June 2005)
  Contacts: Carme Clavel-Arcas and Alberto Concha Eastman (PAHO)
• Nicaragua Patient Record Forms [PDF - 96 KB] (Español)
• El Salvador Patient Record Forms [PDF - 105 KB] (Español)
• Colombia Patient Record Forms [PDF - 179 KB] (Español)

Chile

• Mortality and Morbidity From External Causes, Chile 1968-2003 [PPT - 224 KB] (June 2005)
  Mortality and Morbidity From External Causes, Chile 1968-2003 (English Translation) [PPT - 163 KB]
  Contact: Danuta Rajs

ICE Collaboration with European Union (EU)

• European Union Public Health Programme: 2003 to 2008 (June 2004)
  PPT Version (275 KB)
  Contacts: Birthe Frimodt-Moller and Saakje Mulder
• Proceedings of the ICE on Injury Statistics, Volume IV
• European Union Public Health Programme: 2003 to 2008
  (April 2003)
  Contact: Mathilde Sector
• Developing A Set of Indicators for Injuries/Accidents for the European Union: A Practical Approach (April 2003)
  Contact: Saakje Mulder
• Update on Injury registration in the Nordic Countries (April 2003)
  Contact: Johan Lund
• ICE Collaboration With EU [PPT - 380 KB] (May 2002)
  Contacts: Anne Mette Johansen and Birthe Frimodt-Moller
• European Union Group Discussions (April 2001)
  Contact: David Stone

International Classification of Diseases

• ICD-11: injury and external causes of injury [PPT - 56 KB] (March 2008)
  Contact: James Harrison
• ICD Revision Process: Chapters XIX and XXX [PPT - 786 KB] (Sept 2006)
  Contact: Robert Jakob
• Revision Trail of ICD-10: Ch XX on External Causes of Injury [PPT - 42 KB] (Sept 2006)
  Contact: Martti Virtanen
• International Classification of Diseases (ICD) Revision Process: Towards ICD-11 [PPT - 195 KB] (Sept 2006)
  Contact: Robert Jakob
• Results of the ICD 10 Bridge Coding Study in England and Wales (April 2003),
  Proceedings of the ICE on Injury Statistics, Volume IV
  Contacts: Cleo Rooney or Clare Griffiths
• ICD-9 to ICD-10: Bridge Coding [PPT - 82 KB] (April 2001)
  Contact: Pnina Zadka
• International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) Updates [PPT - 107 KB] (April 2001)
  Contact: Donna Pickett
• Transitions from ICD-9 to -10 - Australia's Updates to External Causes ICD-10 AM 3rd Edition [PPT - 1.3 MB] (May 2002)
  Contact: Malinda Steenkamp
• NISU Briefing: New External Cause Categories in the Third Edition of ICD-10-AM [PDF - 245 KB] (May 2002)
  Contact: James Harrison

Household Surveys

• U.S. National Health Interview Survey: Injury Questions [PPT - 160 KB] (Sept 2006)
  Contacts: Li-Hui Chen
• Injury Questions on Household Surveys From Around the World
  Companion Tables 1, 2, and 3 [PDF - 164 KB]
  Detailed tables available in Excel spreadsheet
  Spreadsheet Description
  Contact: Margaret Warner
• Household Injury Survey Comparison (April 2003), Proceedings of the ICE on Injury Statistics, Volume IV
  Contact: Margaret Warner
• Household Surveys of Injury: What Are the "Right" Questions to Ask and With What Recall? [PPT - 212 KB] (May 2002)
  Contacts: Margaret Warner r and Melissa Heinen
• Household Surveys and Injury Questions from Around the World (April 2001)
  Contact: Lois A. Fingerhut

Disability

• Using Linked Data to Examine Injury and Disability [PPT - 263 KB] (Sept 2006)
  Contacts: Beth Rasch and Chris Cox
• Proceedings of the ICE on Injury Statistics, Volume IV
• Incorporating Disability Measures Into Injury Measurement (April 2003)
  Contact: Barbara Altman
• ECOSA Working Group on Quantifying Post-Injury Levels of Functioning and Disability (April 2003)
  Contact: Saakje Mulder

Terrorism

• Deaths Due to Terror Acts - Coding the external Cause for Statistical Purposes (April 2003), Proceedings of the ICE on Injury Statistics, Volume IV
  Contact: Pnina Zadka
• Terrorism ICD Codes for U.S. Morbidity and Mortality [PPT - 54 KB]
  Contacts: Margaret Warner and Lois A. Fingerhut
• Classification of Death and Injury Resulting from Terrorism

Occupational Injury

• Occupational ICE: Progress and Direction (June 2004)
  Contact: Nancy Stout
• Occupational ICE on Injury (April 2003), Proceedings of the ICE on Injury Statistics, Volume IV
  Contact: Nancy Stout
• Occupational Injury (April 2001)
  Contacts: Nancy Stout , Anne-Marie Feyer, or Ann Williamson

Poisoning

• Fatal Poisoning in Childhood, England and Wales, 1968-2000 [PDF - 322 KB]
  Contacts: Robert Flanagan, Cleo Rooney , and Clare Griffiths
• Drug Poisoning: Trends and Current Status US, England and Wales, Canada [PPT - 322 KB]
  Contacts: Lois A. Fingerhut , Clare Griffiths , and Kathryn Wilkins
• Suicide/Fatal Poisoning: England and Wales 1950-2002 [PPT - 305 KB]
  Legends to Figures [PDF - 30 KB]
  Contact: Robert Flanagan
• Fatal Poisoning: Controlled Drugs Other Than Heroin and Methadone [PDF - 75 KB]
  Contact: Robert Flanagan
• Poisoning Deaths: Time For A New Definition [PPT - 137 KB]
  Contacts: Lois A. Fingerhut and Clare Griffiths
• Poisoning Data England and Wales 1950-2001 - Charts and Figures [PPT - 280 KB]
  Poisoning Data England and Wales 1950-2001 - Tables [XLS - 59 KB]
  Contact: Robert Flanagan
• Poison-ICE Update (April 2003), Proceedings of the ICE on Injury Statistics, Volume IV
  Contact: Robert Flanagan
• Recording Acute Poisoning Deaths [PDF - 272 KB] (2002)
  Contacts: Robert Flanagan and Cleo Rooney
• Poisoning Classification (April 2001)
  Contact: Robert Flanagan

Definition of Injury

• Improving Reporting of Work Injuries: Proposal for Developing Definitions for use in Injury Surveys [PPT - 290 KB] (Sept 2006)
  Contacts: Gordon Smith and Nancy Stout
• What Is An Injury? (April 2003), Proceedings of the ICE on Injury Statistics, Volume IV
  Contact: John Langley
• What ICD Diagnostic Codes Should We Consider as Operationally Defining an Injury? [PPT - 337 KB] (May 2002)
  Contacts: John Langley and Megan Davies

• Revisions to AIS and FCI (May 2002)
  Contact: Maria Segui-Gomez

  Anyone with comments or suggestions for the upcoming updates of the AIS and the FCI, please contact Ms. Elaine Woodzin or Dr. Tom Gennarelli, co-Chairs of the AAAM

Global Burden of Disease

• Global burden of disease and discussion [PPT - 48 KB] (March 2008)
  Contacts: James Harrison and Kavi Bawa-Bhalla

Other ICE-Related Projects

• International Injury Death Rate Comparisons [PPT - 231 KB] (Sept 2006)
  Contacts: Lois Fingerhut
• International Comparisons of Proportion of Unspecified External Causes of Death [PPT - 1 MB] (Sept 2006)
  Contacts: Tsung-Hsueh (Robert) Lu
• Hospital Separations: Identification of Records for Use in Tabulating of National Injury Data [PPT - 545 KB] (Sept 2006)
  Contacts: Susan G. Mackenzie
• Selecting Hospital Records for Injury Surveillance: Australia As An Example [PPT - 944 KB] (Sept 2006)
  Contacts: James Harrison
• Hospital Separations Selection of Records for Injury Surveillance [PPT - 128 KB] (June 2005)
  Contact: Susan Mackenzie
• WET-ICE (a.k.a. Drowning) (April 2001)
  Contact: Gordon Smith
• International Comparative Analysis of Injury Mortality:
  Add Your Country's Recent Data
  Contact: Lois A. Fingerhut
• International Comparison of Injury Case-Fatality Rates in the United States and New Zealand [PPT - 130 KB] (May 2002)
  Contacts: Ted Miller, John Langley , Rebecca Spicer, and Shaun Stephenson
• Improving State Hospital Discharge Data: Insight from a 19 State Analysis [PPT - 1.5 MB] (December 2001)
  Contacts: Bruce Lawrence, Harold Weiss, and Ted Miller

Copies of the Proceedings and Working Papers can be obtained from the Information Dissemination Staff, NCHS, 3311 Toledo Road, Room 5407, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782; by calling (301) 458-4636; or by downloading from the "Proceedings" links above.