Data Note(s)

• Data are for Florida residents based on county of residence.

• Hospital and emergency department visit data do not include Veteran Affairs (VA) and other federal hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and psychiatric hospitals.

• Data reflects hospitalizations or emergency department visits rather than the number of people.

• Rates are per 100,000 population. Rates based on total counts less than 20 may be unstable; use with caution.

• 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.

• Counts of 1-4 are suppressed.

• Traumatic brain injury*: S02.0, S02.1, S02.8X, S02.80, S02.81, S02.82, S02.91, S04.02, S04.03, S04.04, S06, S07.1, T74.4. *7th character of A, B, or missing (reflects initial encounter, active treatment). Traumatic brain injury status is available for all injury hospitalizations, unintentional motor vehicle traffic-related, motor vehicle traffic-related injury to motorcyclist, motor vehicle traffic-related injury to occupant, motor vehicle traffic-related injury to pedalcyclist, motor vehicle traffic-related injury to pedestrian, unintentional-related injury, assault-related injury, violence-related injury, unintentional fall-related injury and all injury Emergency Department (ED) visits.

Data Note(s)

• Chart will display if there are at least three years of data.

• Multi-year counts are a sum of the selected years, not an average.

• Quartiles are calculated when data is available for at least 51 counties.

• MOV - Measure of Variability: Probable range of values resulting from random fluctuations in the number of events. Not calculated when numerator is below 5 or denominator is below 20, or count or rate is suppressed. The MOV is useful for comparing rates to a goal or standard. For example, if the absolute difference between the county rate and the statewide rate is less than the MOV, the county rate is not significantly different from the statewide rate (alpha level = 0.05). When the absolute difference between the county rate and the statewide rate is greater than the MOV, the county rate is significantly different from the statewide rate. MOV should not be used to determine if the rates of two different counties, or the county rates for two different years, are statistically significantly different.

• Denom - abbreviated for Denominator.

• Population estimates are not available for persons whose county of residence is unknown. Given this, the denominator and associated rate are not available.

• * - Indicates the county rate is statistically significantly different from the statewide rate.

• These data represent new diagnoses by year of diagnosis, as of 06/30/2025. The next update is scheduled for July 2026.
• HIV data are updated each year from 1979 to the most recent reporting year to ensure a case has not been counted more than once. This update is necessary because duplicate cases may occur when persons with an HIV diagnosis move to a different county, state or country.
• HIV data by Year of Diagnosis reflects any diagnosis meeting the CDC definition of HIV which includes all new diagnoses of HIV (regardless if AIDS at time of diagnosis) with no previous diagnosis of HIV anywhere else in the United States or its territories.
• AIDS data by Year of Diagnosis reflects any diagnosis meeting the CDC definition of AIDS (regardless where or when HIV was diagnosed) with no previous diagnosis of AIDS anywhere else in the United States or its territories.
• HIV and AIDS cases by year of diagnosis are NOT mutually exclusive and should NOT be added together.
• Enhanced laboratory reporting (ELR) laws in 2006 and the expansion of ELR in 2007 led to an artificial peak in new diagnoses of HIV in 2008.
• Rates for Hispanic and non-Hispanic population became available starting in 2004
• Rates are NOT available by Mode of Exposure
• MMSC = Male-to-male Sexual Contact, IDU = Injection drug use, MMSC/IDU = Male-to-male Sexual Contact and Injection drug use, Hetero = Heterosexual Contact, Other = Other Risk.
• This is primary, quantitative data.
• All population-based rates are calculated using July 1 Florida population estimates from the Florida Legislature, Office of Economic and Demographic Research.

Data Note(s)

• Data are for Florida residents based on county of residence.

• Hospital and emergency department visit data do not include Veteran Affairs (VA) and other federal hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and psychiatric hospitals.

• Data reflects hospitalizations or emergency department visits rather than the number of people.

• Rates are per 100,000 population. Rates based on total counts less than 20 may be unstable; use with caution.

• 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.

• Counts of 1-4 are suppressed.

• Traumatic brain injury*: S02.0, S02.1, S02.8X, S02.80, S02.81, S02.82, S02.91, S04.02, S04.03, S04.04, S06, S07.1, T74.4. *7th character of A, B, or missing (reflects initial encounter, active treatment). Traumatic brain injury status is available for all injury hospitalizations, unintentional motor vehicle traffic-related, motor vehicle traffic-related injury to motorcyclist, motor vehicle traffic-related injury to occupant, motor vehicle traffic-related injury to pedalcyclist, motor vehicle traffic-related injury to pedestrian, unintentional-related injury, assault-related injury, violence-related injury, unintentional fall-related injury and all injury Emergency Department (ED) visits.