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Older adults in North Carolina will maximize their independence and quality of life by experiencing fewer falls and falls-related injuries and deaths.

Number of Fall-related Nonfatal Hospitalizations Statewide (among adults 65 and over)

Current Value

19,688

2020

Definition

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Data Description

NC DHHS Injury and Violence Prevention Branch

The Injury and Violence Prevention Branch Surveillance Unit maintains statewide injury and violence related surveillance by providing emergency department, hospital discharge, mortality, and survey data to monitor the incidence of and risk factors for fatal and nonfatal injury.

The branch provides this information to North Carolina’s health professionals, citizens, lawmakers and others interested in injury and violence prevention in the state. Injury and violence surveillance data provide the epidemiologic foundation for effective, data-driven injury and violence prevention and intervention planning. The unit compiles information from several on-going and regularly collected data systems.

Specific fall-related injury hospitalization data for 2020 in North Carolina's population of adults 65 years and older may be found here:

Hospitalization Data: Leading Causes of Injury Hospitalizations by Age, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity

After climbing steadily from 2016 to 2019, the rate of fall-related injury hospitalizations (the number of fall-related injury hospitalizations per 100,000 North Carolina residents aged 65+) declined slightly in 2020. This graph shows the actual number of fall-related injury hospitalizations in the state. Although the overall number has continued to increase, the rate of these injury hospitalizations has fallen slightly because the growth in the population of older adults in our state has outpaced the increase in the number of these fall-related injury hospitalizations. 

Rate of fall-related injury hospitalizations in North Carolina per 100,000 older adult residents:

2020: 1085.0

2019: 1096.6

2018: 1077.0

2017: 1063.2

2016: 1066.7

Falls Case Definition:

For nonfatal hospital discharge and emergency department data, this analysis
uses the “Nonfatal Unintentional Fall-related” Hospitalizations and Emergency
Department Visits case definition established by the Council of State and
Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) ICD-10-CM Transition Workgroup. For more
information about this case definition or injury surveillance methodology, please
visit: https://resources.cste.org/Injury-Surveillance-Methods-Toolkit.
For fatal data, this analysis uses the “Unintentional Fall-related Fatalities” case
definition established by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.

 

Falls rates vary by county. See the map below for the hospitalization rates per 100,000 across the state. 

 

 

 

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