Injury Surveillance Systems Should Expand Coding to Better Capture Data on Fall-Related Injuries

What's the news. Injury surveillance data capturing falls-related injuries in older adults should be expanded from the existing method of using just falls-related external-cause-of-injury codes (E-codes) to also use algorithms that include International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9)-coded-injuries, according to an August 21, 2019, study in JAMA Network Open.