Nonfatal Occupational Injuries and Illnesses Among Workers Treated in Hospital Emergency Departments – United States, 2003

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• Personal Author:
  Derk SJ ; Jackson, Larry L. ; Marsh, Suzanne M.
• Description:
  CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) collects data on nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses through the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS), an emergency department (ED)-based surveillance system. This report summarizes data for 2003. The overall number and rate of occupational injuries and illnesses did not change substantially during the 5-year period since data were last reported in 1998. In 2003, age-, sex-, and diagnosis-related patterns of injury and illness among workers treated in EDs (ED-treated injuries/illnesses) were similar to those reported in 1998. To achieve substantial decreases in these injuries and illnesses, prevention efforts must focus on effective, targeted workplace-safety interventions for diverse occupations. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) administers NEISS, a national stratified probability sample of U.S. hospitals with 24-hour EDs that tracks product-related injuries/illnesses that are not work related. In addition, CPSC collaborates with CDC to collect data for two adjunct programs: the NIOSH work-related injuries/illnesses program (NEISS-Work) and the NEISS All-Injury Program (NEISS-AIP). NEISS-Work tracks nonfatal work-related injuries and illnesses by using the CPSC ED surveillance system. These cases are in addition to the CPSC product-related cases, and the cases are mutually exclusive. NEISS-AIP collects data on all injuries, regardless of consumer-product involvement or work relatedness (i.e., it tracks all other types of injuries in addition). The case-capture criteria are similar but not identical for the two adjunct programs (e.g., NEISS-Work includes illnesses whereas NEISS-AIP does not). This report presents data solely from NEISS-Work, which tracks cases reported at 67 of the 101 hospitals in the CPSC NEISS sample. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Emergency Responders Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Occupational Diseases Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Safety
• Keywords:
  Emergency-treatment Health-care-facilities Information-retrieval-systems Injuries Occupational-accidents Occupational-diseases Occupations Statistical-analysis Surveillance-programs
• ISSN:
  0098-7484
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  295
• Issue:
  21
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20030364
• Citation:
  JAMA 2006 Jun; 295(21):2470-2472
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of the American Medical Association
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1491d96d7bf9a638399a8853bee43412c04c6e32144af3f9bc6fd03fb95b824e2e65429fd4265eaba7959c7824c0a57a0a18ab277f6015c5fd9472fff17362a7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/191021/cdc_191021_DS1.pdf
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