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Child and Adolescent Injury: Data Sources
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| Data Set | Emergency Medical Services for Children Linked files |
| Alias | EMSC linked files |
| Data Collection Agency | Illinois Department of Public Health |
| Purpose | To link multiple sources of child and adolescent injury data |
| available through the Illinois Department of Public Health fro |
| research purposes. |
| Description | All links invlove only two databases. The databases that have |
| been linked include: IDOT Crash Report, death certificates, |
| Illinois Trauma registry, pre-hospital runs, Illinois Hospital |
| Discharge databes. |
| Special Features | The only attempt to link publicly collected databases in order to |
| understand childhood and adolescent injuryIllinois more fully. |
| Subject Age Range | Under age 20 |
| E-Coding Included | For some databases |
| Population or Sample | Population |
| Number of Cases | Varies by linkage |
| Geographic Area Covered | Illinois |
| Years Available | Varies |
| Years Owned by CHDL | None |
| CHDL ID# | 19 |