The National Violent Death Reporting System: overview and future directions

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• Alternative Title:
  Inj Prev
• Personal Author:
  Blair, Janet M ; Fowler, Katherine A ; Jack, Shane P D ; Crosby, Alexander E
• Description:
  Objective
  
  To describe the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS). This is a surveillance system for monitoring the occurrence of homicides, suicides, unintentional firearm deaths, deaths of undetermined intent, and deaths from legal intervention (excluding legal executions) in the US.
  
  Design
  
  This report provides information about the history, scope, data variables, processes, utility, limitations, and future directions of the NVDRS.
  
  Results
  
  The NVDRS currently operates in 32 states, with the goal of future expansion to all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and US territories. The system uses existing primary data sources (death certificates, coroner/ medical examiner reports, and law enforcement reports), and links them together to provide a comprehensive picture of the circumstances surrounding violent deaths.
  
  Conclusions
  
  This report provides an overview of the NVDRS including a description of the system, discussion of its expanded capability, the use of new technologies as the system has evolved, how the data are being used for violence prevention efforts, and future directions.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Cause Of Death Death Certificates Homicide Humans Population Surveillance Suicide United States Violence Wounds, Gunshot
• Source:
  Inj Prev. 22(Suppl 1):i6-11
• Pubmed ID:
  26718549
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6049659
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  22
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:df39bdc8fec7504cf7b63bd5eb50d8e71d5a8a21c4f7de26569880742dcb9312
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/57179/cdc_57179_DS1.pdf
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