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Total Hospitalizations
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Avg. per Year
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Most Common
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2009 vs. 2024
Injury hospitalizations jumped in 2018 — but the coding system changed, too
New York City hospital admissions with injury diagnoses, by year. The 2017–18 jump partly reflects a switch from Clinical Classifications Software (CCS) diagnosis codes to the refined version (CCSR).
Source: SPARCS De-Identified Inpatient Discharges, NY State DOH
Device complications and hip fractures lead the count
Top 10 injury categories, all years combined
Brooklyn hospitals handle the most injury admissions
Share of admissions by hospital borough, all years
Poisoning hospitalizations have surged since 2018
Top 8 injury categories over time
Source: SPARCS, NY State DOH
Every injury category, stacked
All injury types by year, stacked bar
Brooklyn and Manhattan hospitals admit the most injury patients
Admissions by hospital borough over time
Source: SPARCS, NY State DOH. Borough = hospital location, not patient residence.
Borough composition has stayed stable
Stacked by borough, each year
New Yorkers 70 and older are hospitalized for injuries at the highest rate
Admissions by age group over time
Source: SPARCS, NY State DOH
Seniors account for the largest share
Age group distribution, all years
The leading injury changes with age
Top injury category per age group
Which hospitals handle the most injury admissions?
Top 20 facilities, all years combined. Bar color = borough.
Source: SPARCS, NY State DOH
Year-by-year injury counts
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Definitions & Caveats
- What's included: Hospital inpatient discharges — patients formally admitted to a hospital bed. Includes patients admitted via the emergency department.
- What's NOT included: ER treat-and-release visits, where a patient was seen in the ER but not admitted. The majority of injury-related ER visits fall here. No public New York City dataset with diagnosis-level detail exists for these visits.
- The 2017–2018 jump: Data before 2018 uses CCS diagnosis codes (20 injury categories); 2018 onward uses CCSR codes (70+ categories). CCSR captures injuries more broadly, inflating post-2017 totals. Trends within each era are reliable; cross-era comparisons require caution.
- Borough: Based on hospital location, not patient residence. A Bronx resident treated at a Manhattan hospital is counted under Manhattan.
- Age: Pre-grouped (0–17, 18–29, 30–49, 50–69, 70+) for patient privacy.
- Complications: Device/implant and surgical/medical complication categories represent injuries from medical treatment, distinct from traumatic injuries.
- Counting: Each record = one discharge, not one person. A patient hospitalized twice counts twice.
Source: SPARCS Hospital Inpatient Discharges (De-Identified), NY State DOH, 2009–2024. All data de-identified per HIPAA.