FLHealthCHARTS.gov is provided by the Florida Department of Health, Division of Public Health Statistics and Performance Management.
Data Source: Florida Agency for Health Care Administration
Rates are per 100,000 population. Rates based on total counts less than 20 may be unstable; use with caution.
Blank data fields indicate results have been suppressed because counts are between 1 and 4.
Data are for Florida residents based on county of residence.
Data reflects hospitalizations or emergency department visits rather than the number of people. Data may contain multiple hospitalizations or emergency department visits for the same person/injury event due to hospital transfers, readmissions, and follow-up visits. Therefore, the data reflects the number of hospitalizations or emergency department visits and not the number of people injured. Visits to the emergency department that result in admission to that same hospital are counted as hospitalizations.
Hospital and emergency department visit data do not include Veteran Affairs (VA) and other federal hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and psychiatric hospitals.
Each hospitalization or emergency department visit record will be counted in the ICD-10 injury mechanism and intent first listed in the principal diagnosis field, 3 external cause of morbidity fields, and 30 other diagnosis fields. Each record will only be counted as their first listed injury mechanism and intent. Injury mechanisms are mutually exclusive of each other. Injury hospitalizations or emergency department visits that are not coded to a mechanism and intent are labelled 'Not E-Coded.' These records are counted as Other Mechanism in the All Intent category, but not in the Unintentional, Self-Harm, Assault, Other, or Undetermined Intent categories.
Only hospitalizations and emergency department visits that ended in a non-fatal discharge are included in this report.
Effective October 1, 2015, the ICD 9th Revision Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) transitioned to ICD 10th Revision Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM). Data before October 2015 use ICD-9-CM; starting in October 2015, data use ICD-10-CM. Consequently, increases or decreases starting in 2015 may not be due to changes in disease trends but due to changes in coding.