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Hedegaard Holly

A report of the Injury Surveillance Workgroup Region 9, Safe States Alliance, December 2016.

Executive Summary

Impetus for this report: On October 1, 2015 in the United States, ICD-10-CM replaced ICD-9-CM for coding information in hospital discharge, emergency department, and outpatient records for administrative and financial transactions. This change will impact national and state-based injury and violence surveillance activities that use these records. 

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