Category: Announcements

The self-inflicted injury indicator available on the Mental Health Dashboard was updated in February 2025 to remove the ICD-10-CM code Z91.52, Personal history of nonsuicidal self-harm. This code was added to the ICD-10-CM standard with an effective date on October … Read more

Firearm violence continues to be a topic of concern for many Americans, and North Carolina is no exception. In 2021, 1,839 persons were killed by firearm violence in North Carolina, making it the state with the 8th  highest fatality rate … Read more

With approval from the American Hospital Association (AHA) and American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) publish annual ICD-10-CM coding guidelines that provide HIPAA-required instructions … Read more

In 2020, firearms surpassed motor vehicle crashes to become the leading cause of death among youth under age 20 in the United States (Goldstick et. al, 2022). The rate of youth firearm deaths increased by 29% in 2020 and a … Read more

by Katie Harmon As part of an APHA/CDC funded project to incorporate data science methods into public health surveillance methods, a team from the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center characterized NC DETECT Emergency Department (ED) visits related to suicidal ideation … Read more

The recording for our February 21, 2023 webinar on the use of NC DETECT and the North Carolina Violent Death Reporting System Dashboard for firearm injury surveillance is now available on our training page. NC DETECT has firearm injury indicators … Read more

In 2020, more than 45,000 people in the United States sustained fatal firearm-injuries, accounting for 53% of suicides and 49% of homicides (CDC). More people suffer nonfatal firearm-related injuries than die, and these injuries often result in long-term health consequences … Read more

Unintentional falls, defined by the WHO as events in which an individual comes to rest on the ground, are the leading cause of non-fatal injury-related emergency department visits in the United States (CDC). Of the over 8 million unintentional fall-related … Read more

Through their collaboration, North Carolina Firearm Injury Surveillance Through Emergency Rooms (NC-FASTER), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Injury Prevention Research Center and Carolina Center for Health Informatics, along with the North Carolina Division of Public Health’s Injury … Read more

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a series of diseases, including chronic bronchitis and emphysema, that lead to obstructions in one’s respiratory system and, in turn, difficulty breathing (CDC). Common causes of COPD include exposure to tobacco smoke and other … Read more