International Classification of External Causes of Injury
(ICECI) To enable classifying external causes of injuries. It is
designed to help researchers and prevention practitioners to
describe, measure and monitor the occurrence of injuries and to
investigate their circumstances of occurrence using an
internally agreed classification. Criteria underlying the
classification are: a separate coding axis for each main
concept, usefulness for injury prevention, useability in may
types of settings (many parts of the world; emergency
departments and other places where data are collected),
comparability and complementarity with the ICD-10 ICECI has a
multi-axial and hierarchical structure: core module including
seven items (mechanism of injury, objects/substances producing
injury, place of occurrence, activity when injured, the role of
human intent, use of alcohol, use of (other) psycho-active
drugs) and five additional modules to enable collection of
additional data on special topics (violence, transport, place,
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