NACRS Data Tool

Emergency Department Visits (Lower Mainland), 2013/14-2024/25 Emergency Department Visits (Lower Mainland), 2014-2025

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Admission:
Age Group:
Main Body Part Injured:
Month:
Main Nature of Injury:
Sex:
Treating Region:
Category of Injury:
Year:
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Note: * represents a number less than 5
Note: Not all hospitals in BC submit to NACRS. The tool presents data from hospitals submitting to NACRS, and that are complete for the region.
British Columbia Ministry of Health [creator] (2026). National Ambulatory Care Reporting System. British Columbia Ministry of Health [publisher]. Data Extract. Ministry of Health (2026). Retrieved from BCIRPU Injury Data Online Tool, 2026. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/health/health-forms/online-services
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Acknowledgement: We acknowledge the assistance of the [Provincial Health Services Authority, BC Ministry of Health, and Regional Health Authority] staff involved in data access, procurement, and management. We gratefully acknowledge the residents of British Columbia whose data are integrated in the non-communicable disease and injury surveillance project.

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Broken down By:

Admission:

Age Group:

Main Body Part Injured:

Month:

Main Nature of Injury:

Sex:

Treating Region:

Category of Injury:

Year:

Query Date:

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Citation or reference: British Columbia Ministry of Health [creator] (2025). National Ambulatory Care Reporting System. British Columbia Ministry of Health [publisher]. Data Extract. Ministry of Health (2025). Retrieved from BCIRPU Injury Data Online Tool, 2025. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/health/health-forms/online-services

Note: Not all hospitals in BC submit to NACRS. The tool presents data from hospitals submitting to NACRS, and that are complete for the region.

Disclaimer: Interpretation of the data and summary information in this table/chart is the responsibility of the user. The numbers may vary from other similar datasets due to discrepancies in coding categories. All inferences, opinions, and conclusions drawn from this tool are those of the user(s), and do not reflect the opinions or policies of the Data Steward(s).

We acknowledge the assistance of the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) and BC Ministry of Health staff involved in data access, procurement, and management. We gratefully acknowledge the residents of British Columbia whose data are integrated in the Injury hospitalization surveillance project (ND0912) within PHSA's Platform for Analytics & Data.

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TERM	DESCRIPTION
Category of Injury	The injury or illness in terms of its principal physical characteristics. It is classified based on its cause or mechanism, and includes burns, poisoning, drowning, and the presence of a foreign body.
Nature of Injury	Describes how the injury occurred or the type of damage caused to the body, such as fracture, dislocation or sprain.
Body Part	The body part, or bodily system, directly affected by an injury or disease identified in the nature of injury classification.
Region of Treating Facility	Region derived from the facility (hospital) where the patient was treated.
Asphyxia	A condition caused by insufficient oxygen supply to the body due to low oxygen levels in the surrounding air or a mechanical threat to breathing.
Drowning/Submersion	Accidental drowning or submersion either as a fall or activity in water.
Maltreatment/Abuse	The infliction non-fatal injuries by another person, by any means, on an adult or child.
Environmental	Includes heatstroke and sunstroke, as well as other environmental factors such as frostbite, toxic effects of venom animal, radiation effects, effects of heat and light, hypothermia, decompression sickness, barotrauma, and effects of lightening.
Foreign Body	An object that enters the body through inhalation, ingestion, or penetration, which is not naturally present and may cause injury or obstruction.
Poisoning	Includes narcotic and hallucinogen drug poisoning, alcohol poisoning, and other drug poisoning, such as poisoning by salicylates, acetaminophen, benzodiazepines, psychotropics, cardiotropic, other substances, or unspecified substances.
Other Injury	In NACRS, 'Other Injury' refers specifically to cases where the ICD-10 code does not fall under asphyxia, burns, drowning, environmental injuries, foreign body, maltreatment, or poisoning. In NACRS data, this category only includes electrocution.

This easy-to-use online data tool facilitate and simplify access to National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS) data for Lower Mainland emergency department (ED) visits. NACRS does not report the external cause of morbidity (V01-Y98) that is typically used to identify the intent or the external cause of injury. The tool includes ED visits for injuries, identified by diagnosis codes S00–T89 in any of the three diagnosis columns. This tool provides information on all levels of ambulatory care within the Lower Mainland, including all EDs. It includes ED visits from hospitals in the Lower Mainland, including Fraser Health, Vancouver Coastal Health, and PHSA, covering both BC residents and non-BC residents. Hospitals in Interior Health, Northern Health, and Island Health are excluded due to low reporting compliance in NACRS.

For details on case definitions and injury classifications (ICD-10 codes), please refer to the following links.

Injury Case Definition

Injury Classification

This easy-to-use online data tool is to facilitate and simplify access to injury-related emergency department data for injury prevention stakeholders in British Columbia. This information can be used as valuable background knowledge in injury prevention research, decision making, priority setting, program evaluation and resource allocation. Collection, use, disclosure and retention of personal information must comply with the provisions of the BC Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act

The data generated is only intended to be a general summary of information on injuries and should not be considered as a replacement of official statistics for provincial or local authorities. Attempting to identify an individual by cross-checking the information or linking these data with other datasets or information is strictly prohibited. Cases that are less than 5 are represented with * to protect the privacy and confidentiality of the patient. If the identity of an individual described in a data set is discovered inadvertently, please ensure that there is no disclosure of this information and report this to BCIRPU immediately.

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