Injury-related emergency department visits data query: We recommend the "Treated and Released ONLY" filter (the default selection) because it prevents counting a health care visit more than once. Patients transferred to hospitals for inpatient stays or those who died while in the ED are not included. This keeps the effects of injury from appearing artificially high. Selecting "ALL visits" will show the total volume of visits that EDs experience due to injury, including those visits that resulted in a transfer to inpatient hospitals or death in the ED.
Treated and released ONLY (default) ALL visits
Step 2. Select a measure of ED visits Number of ED visits for injuries
This is the observed count of visits.
Unadjusted rate
This is the observed rate and is displayed as the number of visits per 100,000 residents. Please use this rate when describing injury among your population of interest. This rate should not be used to compare different populations or time periods to each other as we have not adjusted these rates to account for differences in age composition across populations.
Age-adjusted rate
We recommend that you select age-adjusted rates when making comparisons between two populations (for example, Southern Region injury rates compared to Northern Region injury rates), or two different time periods (for example, 2016 injury rates compared to 2018). Age-adjustment accounts for differences in age composition across populations and time. We use the Standard U.S. Population for Year 2000 for age-adjustment.
Rank of 13 major injury cause categories
Rank is based on number of ED visits and is not inclusive of all injuries. Injury cause categories in this option are mutually exclusive. If this option is selected, Steps 3, 7 and 8 will be skipped.
Step 3. Select ONLY ONE option from the list below. The specific injury options listed below do not include ALL possible injury causes or manners. These options are also not mutually exclusive (for example, a motor vehicle injury may also be classified as a traumatic brain injury). There are nine possible diagnosis fields and two external cause of injury fields (e-codes) that can be coded for each visit and determine injury classification. One visit can be classified as multiple injury types below.
ALL injuries Assault-related injury (ANY manner of assault) Drowning Firearms Poisoning: ALL
OR choose one of the following:Non-drug-related poisoning Drug-related poisoning
Suffocation Self-harm injuries: ALL (for more inclusive, patient-level data, including all instances of current self-harm behavior, refer to the Self-harm data dashboard )
OR choose one of the following methods of self-harm injury (not inclusive of all methods; more than one method could have been used):Firearm Poisoning Suffocation Cutting or piercing objects
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): ALL
OR choose one of the following manners of TBI injury (not inclusive of all manners):Unintentional fall-related TBI Unintentional struck by or against someone or something TBI Unintentional motor vehicle-related TBI Assault-related TBI
Unintentional fall-related injuries
Hip fracture among those with an unintentional fall-related injury (ages 65 and older only)
Unintentional fire-related injuries Unintentional motor vehicle traffic (MVT) injury: ALL
OR choose one of the following types of MVT injury (not inclusive of all types):Occupant (may include the driver or passenger of motor vehicle) Motorcycle Pedal cyclist Pedestrian
Step 4. Choose area of patient's residence Hold down the control (Ctrl) key to select multiple counties, regions, or regional trauma council areas.
Note: To see results for individual areas, choose "Geographic Area" as a ROW variable or COLUMN variable in Step 7 or 8 below.
See the region map , urban and rural map , or regional trauma advisory council map .
Choose one or more regions. All Southern Southeastern Northeastern Western Northern
Choose one or more counties. All ADAMS ASHLAND BARRON BAYFIELD BROWN BUFFALO BURNETT CALUMET CHIPPEWA CLARK COLUMBIA CRAWFORD DANE DODGE DOOR DOUGLAS DUNN EAU CLAIRE FLORENCE FOND DU LAC FOREST GRANT GREEN GREEN LAKE IOWA IRON JACKSON JEFFERSON JUNEAU KENOSHA KEWAUNEE LA CROSSE LAFAYETTE LANGLADE LINCOLN MANITOWOC MARATHON MARINETTE MARQUETTE MENOMINEE MILWAUKEE MONROE OCONTO ONEIDA OUTAGAMIE OZAUKEE PEPIN PIERCE POLK PORTAGE PRICE RACINE RICHLAND ROCK RUSK ST. CROIX SAUK SAWYER SHAWANO SHEBOYGAN TAYLOR TREMPEALEAU VERNON VILAS WALWORTH WASHBURN WASHINGTON WAUKESHA WAUPACA WAUSHARA WINNEBAGO WOOD
Choose All, Urban, or Rural. All Urban Rural
Choose one or more regional trauma advisory councils. All Region 1: Northwest Region 2: North Central Region 3: Northeast Region 4: Southwest Region 5: South Central Region 6: Fox Valley Area Region 7: Southeast
Step 5. Choose year(s) Choose the year in which the patient was discharged.
Note: WISH suppresses counts in cells that are less than 5 to comply with data privacy guidelines. Combine data years to increase cell counts.
One or more years:
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
Step 6. Choose age, sex, race, and ethnicity (optional) Age Groups (1) Choose one or more age groups. ALL 0 1-4 5-9 10-14 15-17 18-19 20-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65-74 75-84 85+
Age Groups (2) Choose one or more age groups. ALL 0-17 18-44 45-64 65+
SexAll Female Male
Race Rates will not be provided for "Two or More Races" or "Unknown" race. Due to changes in the reporting form, there was a larger number of missing and inconsistent race information from some facilities in the first quarter of 2018. Race information for this year should be reviewed with caution (especially when comparing to previous and later years).
ALL
American Indian and Alaska Native
Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Other Pacific Islander
Black or African American
White
Two or More Races
Unknown
Hispanic Ethnicity Rates will not be provided for Unknown ethnicity.ALL Non-Hispanic Hispanic Unknown
Step 7. Choose a row variable Row Variable Note: cannot be used with a "Ranked Causes" query.
Step 8. Choose a column variable (optional) Column Variable Note: cannot be used with a "Ranked Causes" or "Age-adjusted Rates" query.
