National Data Standards for Injury Surveillance Ver 2.1

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

National Injury Surveillance Unit

Research Centre for Injury Studies

Flinders University of South Australia

• Revision History
• Acknowledgements
• Abstract
• Introduction to NDS-IS
  • Background
  • Overview of Level 1 and Level 2
  • Information needed for injury prevention and control
• Guide to NDS-IS Level 1
• Guide to NDS-IS Level 2
• Appendix 1. National Injury Surveillance Data Dictionary (NISDD) and Guidelines for use
  • NDS-IS Data Items for Level 1 & Level 2
• Appendix 2. Coding concordance tables: ICD and NDS-IS
• Appendix 3. Specifications for NDS-IS Data interchange
• Appendix 4. Proposed additions to NDS-IS
• Appendix 5. Summary of Level 1 items and classifications
• Glossary
• Bibliography

Revision history, NDS-IS version 2

Revision T 18 December 1995: initial release.
Revision U 21 December 1995: correction of Nature of Injury concordance table

Version 2.1 Revision A 30 November 1997: (limited circulation of manuscript of new version)

• mapping is now to ICD-9-CM, Australian version, second edition 1996
• this version is still mapped to NHDD version 4.0; the next revision will be updated to the current edition of NHDD version 6.0

• Supplementary items Postcode> and Triage score> have been added to the dictionary
• Tables outlining Coding examples for type of place and type of activity have been added to Appendix 1

• Category Struck by or collision with, object or person has been removed and replaced with two distinct categories for person or object (NDS-IS-Level 1, item 2A; codes [30] & [31])
• General information item, NHDD, item P31 Mode of separation has been modified by the addition of the category 0= Admitted to hospital
• General information item, Employment status, uses the coding recommended for public and psychiatric hospitals in NHDD, item P14. This coding has also been modified to distinguish those who are self employed by the addition of two categories, employee [7] & self-employed [8].
• Activity when injured (Level 1, item 4), defaults to other specified activity [8] if Intent (Level 1, item 2B) = intentional self-harm [2].
• Level 1, item 5B, lower back [6] now includes loin
• Appropriate ICD-9-CM & ICD-10 codes have been added to Table A2.2A for new categories [30] & [31]
• Formats for new supplementary items have been added to Table A3.1
• Format for [6] Nature of injury has been amended to NNN to accommodate 3 digit nature codes.
• Format for [23] Place of injury occurrence-sub-type has been amended to NNN to accommodate 3 digit place codes.
• Format for [26] sub-types has been divided to accommodate different coding for industry and occupation.

• Table A3.1: repetition of '26' in first column corrected

• Table A2.2B: corrected numbering of three rows (8 to 7; 9 to 8; 7 to 9); row order altered accordingly.
• Label of Item 5A category 26 revised (to clarify its meaning)
• Various minor editorial corrections.

Acknowledgments