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US Burden Injuries that occurred in 2000 cost the US health care system $1.1 billion for fatal injuries, $33.7 billion for injury hospitalizations, $31.8 billion for injury emergency department visits, and $13.6 billion for other outpatient visits. [Finkelstein EA, Corso PS, Miller TR. The Incidence and Economic Burden of Injuries in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.] |
National Trauma Data Bank
The National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB) is the largest aggregation of U.S. trauma registry data ever assembled. The goal of the NTDB is to inform the medical community, the public, and decision makers about a wide variety of issues that characterize the current state of care for injured persons in our country. It has implications in many areas including epidemiology, injury control, research, eduction, acute care, and resource allocation. Click here for access to the database: www.ntdb.org
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