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The purpose of this page is to give you a single place to look at changes and
updates to our data. We make every reasonable attempt to validate our data
before we post it, but sometimes we still have to make corrections. If you
have concerns about how any changes may have affected your results, please contact
us at epic@dhs.ca.gov.
This page last updated:
06/16/2006
Summary of Our Data
Table. Number of fatal and nonfatal injuries
in EPIC data sets as presented online in the EPICenter web site.
| Year |
Number of Fatal Injuries |
Number of Hospitalized Nonfatal Injuries |
| 2004 |
16,682
|
249,415
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| 2003 |
16,778
|
248,741
|
| 2002 |
15,878
|
240,079
|
| 2001 |
15,089
|
232,797
|
| 2000 |
14,247
|
228,392
|
| 1999 |
14,302
|
221,486
|
| 1998 |
14,062
|
221,509
|
| 1997 |
14,986
|
220,387
|
| 1996 |
15,653
|
214,410
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| 1995 |
16,891
|
215,151
|
| 1994 |
16,856
|
214,612
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| 1993 |
17,647
|
211,667
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| 1992 |
17,093
|
225,173
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| 1991 |
17,274
|
225,533
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Changes and Updates to Our Web Site and Data Sets
| Web Site Features | Fatal Data
| Nonfatal Data | Linked Homicide Data
| Injury Codes |
Web Site Features
- May 2002 - The EPICenter web site was launched!
Fatal Injury Data (from the California Death Statistical
Master) - more about this data set
- May 4, 2006 - 2004 fatal data added to the web site
- May 6, 2003 - 2003 fatal data added to the web site
- March 29, 2004 - 2002 fatal data added to the web site
Hospitalized Nonfatal Injury Data (from the OSHPD Patient
Discharge Data) - more about this dataset
- June 16, 2006 - We had an error in data from 2001-2004 where 8 cases of
nonfatal hospitalized injuries that were of unknown age were included in our
data sets. To be consistent with previous years, we have removed
these cases from this web site. 1 case was removed from 2004, 2 cases
from 2003, 4 cases from 2002, and 1 case from 2001. If these cases were
previously included in your data run before June 2006, they would have shown
up as being less than 1-year old rather than unknown.
- May 4, 2006 - 2004 nonfatal data added to the web site
- May 6, 2005 - 2003 nonfatal data added to the web site
- April 15, 2004 - 2002 nonfatal data added to the web site
- April 15, 2004 - We corrected an error in our 2001 data where we had
inadvertently included non-residents in our data. This means an additional 3,893
records (1.6%) were included in the statewide totals that should not have been.
The previous statewide total was 236,691, and the corrected statewide total is
232,798. Tables generated using County-level data should not have been affected
- only statewide totals were incorrect.
- October 24, 2003 - 2001 nonfatal data added to the web site
- The linked homicide data was last updated August 2, 2002. Please contact
jvancour@dhs.ca.gov for details on the
updates.
Injury Codes (ICD-9 and ICD-10)
- April 15, 2004 - New ICD-9 codes were incorporated into the 2002 Nonfatal
data. These codes were for late effects, terrorism, paintball gun injuries,
and falls from non-motorized scooters. For the new groupings of codes EPIC
uses, please look at our table of ICD 9 and 10 codes.
If these pages don't answer your questions, or if you need help interpreting
data you got from this site, e-mail us at epic@dhs.ca.gov.
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