Excerpt from Head and Spinal Cord Injury in North CarolinaTo develop prevention strategies for head and spinal cord injury there first must be an understanding of the circumstances under which these injuries occur and the populations affected. This study examines death records over a 10year period (1979 through 1988) to determine the incidence and causes of head and spinal cord injury death. Mortality data for this study are from the North Carolina death files, hospital discharge data are from the North Carolina Medical Database Commission. Inpatient discharge data from the Medical Database Commission were available only for calendar year 1988, however, allowing for only single-year comparisons of mortality and morbidity data.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.