Injury Surveillance On-Line

Health Surveillance and Epidemiology Division,
Centre for Health Promotion

CHIRPP
Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program

CHIRPP is an emergency department based injury surveillance program operated by Public Health Agency of Canada in 10 children's and 4 general hospitals. For this reason, Older adolescents and adults are under-represented in the database. For more information, please visit the Injury and Child Maltreatment Section website.

Description / Variable by Age Group, 2002

1- Select chart type

ED Visits:
The number of people who visited CHIRPP emergency departments for treatment of injuries.

Location:
Where the person was at the time of injury.

Activity:
What the person was doing at the time of injury.

Breakdown Event:
What went wrong to result in injury.

2- Chose a gender and click on the [View Chart] button.

Year:
2002

Gender:

3- You can get more information on this subject by downloading the following documents (english only):

Age and sex distribution of the injuried persons

General description of the place where the person was situated when the injury occurred

General description of the area where the person was situated when the injury occurred

Description of how things went wrong and led to the injury

Description of the type of energy transfer or lack of vital substance that caused the injury

Description of the activity of the person at the time of injury

Indication of all safety equipment reported in use when the injury occurred

Indication of how the person was treated while at the hospital emergency department

Distribution of all body parts touched by the injury

Indication of the type of injury suffered by the injured person

[Charts Index] [Quick Charts] [Charts over Time] [Charts by Province/Territory]
[Charts by Injury] [Charts by Age Group] [Mechanism of Injury] [CHIRPP Charts]

[Home] [Maps] [Charts] [Glossary] [Help]
[Disease Surveillance On-Line]


Last Updated: 2005-06-10	Important Notices