Crash Medical Outcomes Data
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The new EpiCenter contains the most current injury death, hospitalization, and ED data.
This legacy version of EpiCenter will no longer be updated.
The Linked Crash-Medical Data come from the California Crash Medical Outcomes Data (CMOD) project, modeled on the
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
Crash Outcome Data Evaluation System (CODES). CMOD links data from from law enforcement traffic crash records (i.e., scene investigations) to medical data (from emergency departments, hospitals).
The level of linkage varies by year with 2014 having 58% of injury crash records linking to a medical record.
To learn more about CMOD data linkage, go to
Help.
There are valid reasons why some records do not link. Some crash victims are never treated in a hospital or emergency department,
and thus there are no medical outcomes data to report. In other cases, records do not have enough information for a positive match.
These linked data do not include a full count of all crashes or all crash injuries. For describing all traffic-related injuries, use EpiCenter’s
other queries.
For describing all
crashes on California roadways, use the California Highway Patrol (CHP) SWITRS Reports
CHP-SWITRS.
Funding for the CMOD Project and the online query is provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration