NC County-Level Firearm Data
This table includes the most recent finalized data from 2018 to present on firearm injuries and deaths among NC residents.
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Navigating the Dashboard
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The Source box allows you to switch between death certificate data, hospitalization data, Emergency Department (ED) visit data coded for firearm injury, and NC FASTER ED visit syndromic data.
- ED visit data include injury ED visits with an ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for firearm injury.
- NC-FASTER syndromic surveillance data include injury ED visits with an ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for firearm injury, or mention of a firearm injury as a chief complaint of the visit. Firearm injuries are flagged using free text search for key terms in the chief complaint input by the provider, for example “GSW” OR “Gunshot” OR “gun shot.” For more information on NC DETECT or the full NC-FASTER syndromic surveillance definition, visit NC DETECT online.
The Data Type box allows you to display either counts by county and year, or rates per 100,000 by county and year.
The Intent box allows you to filter the data by firearm injury intent:
- Assault
- Unintentional
- Legal Intervention
- Self-Inflicted
- Undetermined
- Unknown (for ED Syndromic data only)