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Inpatient Hospitalizations for Work-Related Burns by Year, New Jersey, 2000 to 2023
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Why Is This Important?
Work-related burns are among the most devastating injuries affecting workers. Although hospitalized burns are rare events, they are painful, disabling, and may result in significant disfigurement.
Definition
Hospitalizations of persons 16 years or older with burn injury as the primary diagnosis and primary payer coded as workers' compensation. ICD-9-CM codes: 940 - 949; ICD-10-CM codes: T20-T28, T30-T32
Data Notes
Data from 2020 and 2021 may be affected due to the COVID-19 pandemic as businesses were closed, essential workers may have been ill, or individuals lost their jobs.Data Sources
- Hospital Discharge Data Collection System (NJDDCS), Health Care Quality and Assessment, New Jersey Department of Health
(https://nj.gov/health/healthcarequality/health-care-professionals/njddcs/) - U.S. Census Bureau
(https://www.census.gov/)
How the Measure is Calculated
Numerator:
Number of hospital discharges with primary diagnosis of burn injury and primary payer coded as workers' compensation.Denominator:
Total number of employed persons aged 16 years or older for the same calendar year.
Data Issues
Missing data in 2022: Three hospitals in Camden and Gloucester Counties submitted their fourth quarter data after the file closure deadline so their data are missing from the 2022 inpatient and emergency department datasets.Overall Discharge Volume in 2020: Hospital claim volume for the 2020 calendar year was markedly lower (19.9%) than for 2019, mostly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This reduction was seen in both inpatient discharges (8.2% lower claim volume than 2019) and emergency department visits (27.3% lower claim volume than 2019). This was likely the result of hospital care being redirected to address the care for COVID-19 patients while elective surgeries and other outpatient care services were being postponed.
Caveats specific to 2017 data: NJDOH changed its vendor for hospitalization data collection in 2017 resulting in data loss at some facilities during the transition period. Additionally, The old vendor experienced a global malware incident in June 2017 that possibly resulted in the loss of some data in the system queue at that time.
ICD Coding between 2015 and 2016: The nationwide switch from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM hospital diagnosis coding on October 1, 2015 disrupted trends for some diseases and conditions. Interpret trend data in this report with caution. Also note that New Jersey's data for October through December, 2015 was recoded to ICD-9-CM so that entire year of data was coded the same way.