NC DHHS Injury and Violence Prevention Branch

The Injury and Violence Prevention Branch Surveillance Unit maintains statewide injury and violence related surveillance by providing emergency department, hospital discharge, mortality, and survey data to monitor the incidence of and risk factors for fatal and nonfatal injury.

The branch provides this information to North Carolina’s health professionals, citizens, lawmakers and others interested in injury and violence prevention in the state. Injury and violence surveillance data provide the epidemiologic foundation for effective, data-driven injury and violence prevention and intervention planning. The unit compiles information from several on-going and regularly collected data systems.

Specific fall-related Emergency Department visit data for 2020 in North Carolina's population of adults 65 years and older may be found here:

NC DETECT Emergency Department (ED) Data: Leading Causes of Injury ED Visits by Age, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity

Falls Case Definition:

For nonfatal hospital discharge and emergency department data, this analysis
uses the “Nonfatal Unintentional Fall-related” Hospitalizations and Emergency
Department Visits case definition established by the Council of State and
Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) ICD-10-CM Transition Workgroup. For more
information about this case definition or injury surveillance methodology, please
visit: https://resources.cste.org/Injury-Surveillance-Methods-Toolkit.
For fatal data, this analysis uses the “Unintentional Fall-related Fatalities” case
definition established by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.

Fall-related ED visits vary by county. See the map below for rates in counties across the state.