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ensure accuracy. Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review
National Violent Death Reporting System, the Data Elements for
Emergency Department Systems, and the International
Classification of External Cause of Injury coding system. The
NIBRS and the NVDRS have been discussed; the latter two systems
are described below. Data Elements for Emergency Department
Systems: CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
is coordinating an effort to develop uniform specifications for
data entered into emergency department records. These
specifications, known as DEEDS, are intended for use in 24-hour,
hospital-based emergency departments throughout the United
States. If the data definitions, coding conventions, and other
recommended specifications were widely adopted,
incompatibilities between emergency departments records would be