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Catherine Sanford, Katrina Baggett and Michael Bowling explore the rate of reporting external causes of injury are reported to accompany injury-related diagnosis codes. These codes are used to study external causes of injuries.
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This study assessed the completeness of the recording of external cause of injury codes (E-codes) on North Carolina hospital discharge records, for those patients with an injury as the primary cause of admission. E-codes are important for public health efforts to identify how many people are hurt or die from injuries, as well as the causes of these injuries.
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Drug use during pregnancy is a growing problem. Michael Bowling, Julie Truax, and Donna Scandlin are conducting an experiment to find out just how big of a problem drug use during pregnancy is becoming.
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After the implementation of the revised birth certificate in North Carolina in 1988, new information was recorded about births. The quality of that information was found to be varied. Some aspects of the information were very accurate, others were less so.
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In N.C., women most likely to have received prenatal care were married, employed, wealthier, first-time mothers. Also, women who received primary care from a private physician or health department were more likely to receive some prenatal care.
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Compared to pregnant women nationwide, North Carolina women are more likely to have more complications and more obstetrical procedures performed, be younger than twenty, earn less than $12,000 yearly, and pay medical bills from their own funds.
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The pattern of mortality from infectious diseases has declined in North Carolina, but childhood accidental death has emerged as the leading cause of death to children nineteen years of age or younger. This report examines the incidence of nonfatal childhood accidental injury in North Carolina and household conditions that increase the likelihood of such injuries.