Open AccessPractitioners Assess Achievements and Challenges of Nonfatal Injury Surveillance
Author(s) -
Julia F. Costich,
Sarah C. Vos,
Dana Quesinberry
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of public health management and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.771
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1550-5022
pISSN - 1078-4659
DOI - 10.1097/phh.0000000000001464
Subject(s) - coding (social sciences) , epidemiology , medical record , disease control , epidemiological surveillance , medicine , public health surveillance , injury surveillance , public health , qualitative research , family medicine , medical education , injury prevention , poison control , environmental health , nursing , pathology , statistics , sociology , social science , radiology , mathematics
Injury surveillance relies on data coded for administrative rather than epidemiological accuracy. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the 5-year Surveillance Quality Improvement (SQI) initiative to advance consensus and methodology for injury epidemiology reporting and analysis. Evaluation of the positive predictive value of the CDC's injury surveillance definitions based on International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) and International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) coding in designated injury categories comprised much of the SQI initiative's work. The goal of the current study is to identify achievements and challenges in SQI as articulated by experienced injury epidemiology practitioners who participated in the CDC-funded SQI initiative.