Fireworks Injury ED Visits Data

The numbers and rates of fireworks-related emergency department visits in Iowa by year, age group and gender.

If fireworks injuries are going up or down over time.

If a segment of a population is at higher risk for a visit to the emergency department due to fireworks.

To inform the public about fireworks-related emergency department visits.

For program planning and evaluation by state and local partners.

What factors contribute to fireworks injuries, or what leads to fireworks-related emergency department visits

The total burden of fireworks injury in a population.

The number of people who visited the emergency department due to fireworks injury. Because personal identifiers are removed from the hospital discharge data before analysis, individuals who have multiple emergency department visits cannot be identified.

Emergency department data are collected by the Iowa Hospital Association on behalf of Iowa HHS in accordance with Iowa Code section 135.166.

Bridged-race population estimates from the National Center for Health Statistics and US Census. Data from 2000 to 2009 are based on intercensal population estimates and 2010-most current year are based on the postcensal population estimates.

The Iowa Public Health Tracking portal displays Emergency Department visit data from the year 2003 through the most recent year of data available.

Emergency Department visits are defined as Iowa residents who are treated and released or subsequently admitted to a facility in Iowa.

Fireworks-related emergency department visits have accidents due to fireworks as the first-listed cause of injury.

Fireworks injury is defined as the International Classification of Disease 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) code E923.0.

Fireworks injury is defined as the International Classification of Disease 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) codes that begin with W39.

Multiple emergency department visits by the same patient cannot be identified, and are not excluded.

These data are not appropriate for estimating the total burden of fireworks-related injury.

Iowa residents discharged from hospitals in surrounding states are not included, so hospitalization and emergency department visit rates for counties in which residents are likely to receive care in a surrounding state may be underestimated. Rates for counties in which residents are likely to visit hospitals that do not submit data to the Iowa Hospital Association (e.g., Veteran's Administration, Indian Health Services hospitals, and institutionalized populations) may also be artificially low.