Injury and Violence Prevention Branch

Data and Surveillance

The Injury and Violence Prevention Branch Surveillance Unit maintains statewide injury and violence related surveillance by providing emergency department, hospital discharge, mortality, and survey data to monitor the incidence of and risk factors for fatal and nonfatal injury.

The branch provides this information to North Carolina’s health professionals, citizens, lawmakers and others interested in injury and violence prevention in the state. Injury and violence surveillance data provide the epidemiologic foundation for effective, data-driven injury and violence prevention and intervention planning. The unit compiles information from several on-going and regularly collected data systems.

In addition, the Injury Surveillance Unit:

• Monitors the injury landscape: Collects, analyzes, and interprets injury morbidity and mortality data to characterize the burden of injury in North Carolina; learns from community partners to further assess the burden of injury in North Carolina.
• Assures and improves data quality:
  • Monitors the completeness, timeliness, and quality of core data sources for appropriate use in injury surveillance and internal data processing and quality improvement procedures.
  • Builds and maintains a strong data infrastructure for injury surveillance
• Expands injury surveillance: In keeping with best practices (PH 3.0), continues to expand surveillance activities on mechanisms of injury and through the incorporation of and linkage to additional data sources.
• Disseminates data: Disseminates data to injury prevention stakeholders and responds to data requests.
• Shares and acts for injury prevention: Produces periodic surveillance updates and data reports related to injury intervention program progress and effectiveness, and in coordination with Statewide Injury Strategic Plan and other cooperative agreements.
• Assesses and acts for equity: Assesses and acts to improve our data products, training, and surveillance practices to better incorporate equity considerations, including but not limited to the surveillance of health disparities and centering the needs of marginalized populations and various sociodemographic groups.

Data System Reports

• BRFSS (Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System)
• CHAMP (Child Health Assessment and Monitoring Program)
• YRBS (Youth Risk Behavior Survey)
• PRAMS (Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System)
• NC DETECT (North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool);
  • NC DETECT fact sheets

General Injury Data

Injury Surveillance Technical Notes – Provides an overview on injury surveillance methods and data sources

ICD-10-CM Coding Transition Overview – Describes important changes to the structure of hospitalization and emergency department data and the impact on injury surveillance.

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 Leading Causes of Injury Death, Hospitalization and Emergency Department Visit Data - Updated 12/08/21

 Intent and Mechanism of Injury Death, Hospitalization and Emergency Department Data - Updated 12/14/21

 Injury Data by Topic

 Links to Injury Data and Data Request Policy