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Investigation of Federal Bureau of Investigation Bomb-Related Death and Injury Data in the United States between 1988 and 1997

Military Medicine, Jul 2005 by Noji, Eric K, Lee, Catherine Y, Davis, Timothy, Peleg, Kobi

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Conclusions

Characterizing trends in morbidity and mortality from explosive devices require systematic study and complete data sets. For instance, the Israeli Trauma Registry provides one source of systematized and sorted data on explosion trauma from terrorism.1-3 So far, this study provided an opportunity to investigate a nontraditional public health data source. The FBI data provided a unique source of health data, revealing interesting statistics such as the incidence of 17,579 bombing events in the United States within a 10-year period, 78% of which were explosive and 22% incendiary bombings, 427 reported deaths, and 4,063 reported injuries during 1988-1997. Although there are several limitations using the FBI data source as a complete and true epidemiological tool, there are some benefits.

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Although there are several limitations using the FBI data source as a complete and true epidemiological tool, there are some benefits. This study should encourage interested researchers to explore nontraditional public health data sources. Because the study of explosive injuries encompasses many fields (e.g., law enforcement, medicine, public health, engineering), researchers should anticipate a multidisciplinary approach to develop a systematic and standard method of documenting morbidity and mortality from explosions. Interested researchers should anticipate exploring more data sets, where they can weigh the benefits and limitations of each set of data, with the intent of developing a systematic and standard method of documenting injury from explosive devices.

References

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3. Peleg K, Aharonson-Daniel L, Stein M, et al: The epidemiology of terror-data from the Israeli National Trauma Registry. In: Terror and Medicine, pp 360-9. Edited by Shemer J, Shoenfeld Y. Berlin, Pabst Science Publishers, 2003.

4. National Center for Health Statistics: Vital Statistics of the United States, Mortality. Underlying Causes of Death. Compressed Mortality File (Public Use Files). Hyattsville. MD, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. CDC, 2001.

5. International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM): U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD.

6. Federal Bureau of Investigations: FBI Bomb Data Center general information bulletin 97-1. Washington, DC, U.S. Department of Justice. 1997.

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Investigation of Federal Bureau of Investigation Bomb-Related Death and Injury Data in the United States between 1988 and 1997

Military Medicine, Jul 2005 by Noji, Eric K, Lee, Catherine Y, Davis, Timothy, Peleg, Kobi

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